Psalms 102:4
(102-5) My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I forget to eat my bread.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
In Context
3(102-4) For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.
5(102-6) By reason of the voice of my sighing my bones cleave 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 earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up; the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 30:30My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 6:2(6-3) Be gracious unto me, O LORD, for I languish away; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are affrighted.
Psalms 42:6(42-7) O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 69:20(69-21) Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am sore sick; and I looked for some to show compassion, 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 →