English Standard Version
Psalms 102:4
4My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My heart is stricken and withered like grass, So that I forget to eat my bread.
- New Living Translation (NLT)My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.
Context of Psalms 102:4
2Do not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call! 3For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread. 5Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh. 6I am like a desert owl of the wilderness, like an owl of the waste places;
Read all of Psalms 102Psalms 102:4 word by word
הוּכָּֽה־כָ֭עֵשֶׂב וַיִּבַ֣שׁ לִבִּ֑י כִּֽי־שָׁ֝כַ֗חְתִּי מֵאֲכֹ֥ל לַחְמִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 102:4
- Psalms 6:2Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
- Psalms 42:6and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
- Psalms 55:4My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
- Psalms 69:20Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
- Psalms 77:3When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
- Psalms 143:3For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Job 10:1"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Lamentations 3:13He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
- Matthew 26:37And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
- Psalms 102:11My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
- Psalms 37:2For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
- Isaiah 40:7The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass.
- Psalms 102:9For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
- 1 Samuel 1:7So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.
- Ezra 10:6Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
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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