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Psalms 102:4
4My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I 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.
- 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.
- 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 when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly. 3For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. 5In my distress I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones. 6I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
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הוּכָּֽה־כָ֭עֵשֶׂב וַיִּבַ֣שׁ לִבִּ֑י כִּֽי־שָׁ֝כַ֗חְתִּי מֵאֲכֹ֥ל לַחְמִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 102:4
- Psalms 6:2Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am faint; heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
- Psalms 42:6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
- Psalms 55:4My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen on me.
- Psalms 69:20Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.
- Psalms 77:3I remembered you, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.
- Psalms 143:3The enemy pursues me, he crushes me to the ground; he makes me dwell in the darkness like those long dead.
- Job 6:4The arrows of the Almighty are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are marshaled against me.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
- Lamentations 3:13He pierced my heart with arrows from his quiver.
- Matthew 26:37He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
- Psalms 102:11My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
- Psalms 37:2for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.
- Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass.
- Psalms 102:9For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
- 1 Samuel 1:7This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.
- Ezra 10:6Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he continued to mourn 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
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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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