Psalms 102:4

Psalms 102:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
• New International Version (NIV)My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.
• English Standard Version (ESV)My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
• New King James Version (NKJV)My heart is stricken and withered like grass, So that I forget to eat my bread.

Context of Psalms 102:4

2Hide not thy face from me: in the day of my trouble, incline thine ear unto me; in the day I call, answer me speedily. 3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand. My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread. 5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh. 6I am become like the pelican of the wilderness, I am as an owl in desolate places;

Psalms 102:4 word by word

הוּכָּֽה־כָ֭עֵשֶׂב וַיִּבַ֣שׁ לִבִּ֑י כִּֽי־שָׁ֝כַ֗חְתִּי מֵאֲכֹ֥ל לַחְמִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Psalms 102:4

• Psalms 6:2Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble.
• Psalms 42:6My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.
• Psalms 55:4My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
• Psalms 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
• Psalms 77:3I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Psalms 143:3For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
• Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
• Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Lamentations 3:13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
• Matthew 26:37And taking with [him] Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and deeply depressed.
• Psalms 102:11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
• Psalms 37:2for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.
• Isaiah 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
• Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
• 1 Samuel 1:7And [as] he did so year by year, as often as she went up to the house of Jehovah, she provoked her thus; and she wept and did not eat.
• Ezra 10:6And Ezra arose from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib; and when he came thither, he ate no bread and drank no water; for he mourned because of the unfaithfulness of them that had been carried away.

Commentaries on Psalms 102:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass - The metaphor here is taken from grass cut down in the meadow. It is first smitten with the scythe, and then withered by the sun. Thus the Jews were smitten with the judgments of God; and they are now withered under the fire of the Chaldeans.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4My heart is smitten - Broken; crushed with grief. We now speak of “a broken heart.” Even death is often caused by such excessive sorrow as to crush and break the heart. And withered like grass - It is dried up as grass is by drought, or as when it is cut down. It loses its support; and having no strength of its own, it dies. So that I forget to eat my bread - I am so absorbed in my trials; they so entirely engross my attention, that I think of nothing…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4Like withered grass, the psalmist senses his life fading away.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. (Compare Psa 121:6). so that I forget--or, "have forgotten," that is, in my distress (Psa 107:18), and hence strength fails.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 102:4

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Immortality

In the dictionaries

• Cleave
• Create
• Destitute
• Drought
• Regard
• Accommodation
• Forget; Forgetful
• Job, Book of
• Psalms, Book of
• Withered

Commentaries on Psalms 102

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings