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

2Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress; Incline Your ear to me; In the day when I call answer me quickly. 3For my days have been consumed in smoke, And my bones have been scorched like a hearth. My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread. 5Because of the loudness of my groaning My bones cling to my flesh. 6I resemble a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the waste places.

Psalms 102:4 word by word

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

• My heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820
• has been smittenנָכָהnâkâh · to smiteH5221
• witheredיָבֵשׁyâbêsh · to witherH3001
• Indeedכִּיkîy · forH3588
• forgetשָׁכַחshâkach shâkêach · to forgetH7911
• to eatאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• my breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899

Cross-references for Psalms 102:4

• Psalms 6:2Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am pining away; Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed.
• Psalms 42:6O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
• Psalms 55:4My heart is in anguish within me, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
• Psalms 69:20Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick. And I looked for sympathy, but there was none, And for comforters, but I found none.
• Psalms 77:3When I remember God, then I am disturbed; When I sigh, then my spirit grows faint. Selah.
• Psalms 143:3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has crushed my life to the ground; He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.
• Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, Their poison my spirit drinks; The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
• Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Lamentations 3:13He made the arrows of His quiver To enter into my inward parts.
• Matthew 26:37And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.
• Psalms 102:11My days are like a lengthened shadow, And I wither away like grass.
• Psalms 37:2For they will wither quickly like the grass And fade like the green herb.
• Isaiah 40:7The grass withers, the flower fades, When the breath of the Lord blows upon it; Surely the people are grass.
• Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread And mingled my drink with weeping
• 1 Samuel 1:7It happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.
• Ezra 10:6Then Ezra rose from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. Although he went there, he did not eat bread nor drink water, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness 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

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