Tree of Life Version
Psalms 102:4
4For my days vanished like smoke, and my bones were burned like coals.
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
2Adonai, hear my prayer, let my cry come to You. 3Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn Your ear to me— in the day I call, answer me quickly. For my days vanished like smoke, and my bones were burned like coals. 5My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so that I even forget to eat my bread. 6Because of the sound of my groaning, my bones cling to my flesh.
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 6:2Adonai, do not rebuke me in Your anger! Do not discipline me in Your wrath.
- Psalms 42:6Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why are you murmuring within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, for the salvation of His presence.
- Psalms 55:4because of the voice of the enemy, because of the pressure of the wicked. For they thrust trouble on me, and in anger bear a grudge against me.
- Psalms 69:20You know my reproach, my shame, my disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
- Psalms 77:3In the day of my trouble I seek my Lord. At night my hand stretches out untiringly. My soul refuses to be comforted.
- Psalms 143:3For an enemy pursues my soul. He crushes my life down to the ground. He makes me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of Shaddai are in me, my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors line up against me.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak out of the bitterness of my soul.
- Lamentations 3:13He shot into my kidneys arrows from His quiver.
- Matthew 26:37And He took along Peter and Zebedee’s two sons, and He began to be sorrowful and troubled.
- Psalms 102:11because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and tossed me aside.
- Psalms 37:2For like the grass they soon wither and fade like a green herb.
- Isaiah 40:7The grass withers, the flower fades. For the breath of Adonai blows on it. Surely the people are grass.
- Psalms 102:9My enemies taunt me all day. My deriders use my name to curse.
- 1 Samuel 1:7So it was year after year, whenever she went up to the House of Adonai, that she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.
- Ezra 10:6Then Ezra got up from before the House of God and went into the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he was there, he ate no bread 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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