Psalms 102:4
\102:3\My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
In Context
5\102:4\My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:17And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
Job 30:30My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
Psalms 6:2\6:1\O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.
Psalms 42:6\42:5\Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Psalms 69:20\69:19\You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.
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 →