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 distress: incline thine ear unto me; in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand. My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I forget to eat my bread. 5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my flesh. 6I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste 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 6:2Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am withered away: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
• Psalms 42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore do I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
• Psalms 55:4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
• Psalms 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
• Psalms 77:3I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah
• Psalms 143:3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground: 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, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: the terrors of God do set themselves in array 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 shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
• Matthew 26:37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled.
• Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
• Psalms 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
• Isaiah 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the LORD 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, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
• Ezra 10:6Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.

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