Psalms 102:4
For my days are vanished like smoke: and my bones are grown dry like fuel for the fire.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
In Context
5I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:17And the ancients of his house came, to make him rise from the ground: but he would not, neither did he eat meat with them.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Lord are in me, the rage whereof drinketh up my spirit, and the terrors of the Lord war against me.
Job 30:30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
Psalms 6:2O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath.
Psalms 42:6Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him : the salvation of my countenance,
Psalms 69:20Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.
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 →