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Psalms 102:4
4I am very weak and upset, like dry grass that will soon die. I even forget to eat my food.
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
2Now that I am in trouble, please do not turn away from me. Listen carefully to me. Now that I am calling to you for help, please answer me quickly. 3My life is quickly disappearing, like smoke from a fire. My bones hurt very much, as if they were burning in an oven. I am very weak and upset, like dry grass that will soon die. I even forget to eat my food. 5I cry aloud with pain, so that I am just skin and bones. 6I am like a wild bird in the desert. I am like an owl in the wilderness.
Read all of Psalms 102Psalms 102:4 word by word
הוּכָּֽה־כָ֭עֵשֶׂב וַיִּבַ֣שׁ לִבִּ֑י כִּֽי־שָׁ֝כַ֗חְתִּי מֵאֲכֹ֥ל לַחְמִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 102:4
- Psalms 6:2I do not feel strong, Lord, so please be kind to me. Lord, please make me well again. Even my bones are shaking.
- Psalms 42:6Deep inside me I am very sad. So I will turn to you, my God, from where I am. I will pray to you from Hermon mountain where the Jordan River begins, and from Mizar mountain.
- Psalms 55:4My heart beats fast inside me. Death seems very near, and I am very afraid.
- Psalms 69:20When they insult me, it makes me very upset. I feel helpless. I hoped that someone would be kind and help me, but there was nobody. I wanted someone to comfort me, but I did not find anyone.
- Psalms 77:3When I think about God, I am sad and upset. I do not know if he will help me. Selah.
- Psalms 143:3My enemies are chasing me. They knock me down to the ground. They make me live in dark places, like people who have been dead for a long time.
- Job 6:4Almighty God has shot his arrows into me. Their poison is now deep inside me. God has sent me many troubles that make me afraid.
- Job 10:1I do not want to live any longer. I must continue to complain. I am very upset and I have to speak about it.
- Lamentations 3:13It was as if he shot me in the heart with his arrows.
- Matthew 26:37Then Jesus took Peter and Zebedee's two sons, James and John, with him. He became very sad and upset.
- Psalms 102:11My days are disappearing, like a shadow in the evening. Like dry grass, I will soon die.
- Psalms 37:2Remember that they are soon gone! They are like grass that quickly becomes dry. They will soon die like green plants in hot weather.
- Isaiah 40:7Grass quickly dies, and flowers fall to the ground. The Lord causes this to happen, when he sends a wind to blow on them. It is true. People are like grass.
- Psalms 102:9Because you are so angry with me, I eat ashes as my food. My tears drop into the water that I drink. It seems that you have picked me up, and then you have thrown me away.
- 1 Samuel 1:7This happened every year when they went to the Lord's house in Shiloh. Peninnah would cause Hannah to be upset. Then Hannah would weep. She would refuse to eat anything.
- Ezra 10:6Then Ezra went away from the front of God's temple. He went to the room of Eliashib's son, Jehohanan. While Ezra stayed there, he did not eat any food or drink any water. He was still very sad because the people had not been faithful to God.
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
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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
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