Psalms 102:4
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
In Context
3For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
5Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:17And the elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the ground, but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 30:30My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 6:2Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am withered away. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Psalms 42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 69:20Reproach has 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.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:2-12
Complaints in Affliction. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I… Read the whole commentary →