Psalms 102:4
My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
Darby Translation
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 are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:17And the elders of his house arose, [and went] to him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he ate no bread with them.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 30:30My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Psalms 6:2Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble.
Psalms 42:6My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.
Psalms 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, 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 →