Psalms 102:4
(102:5) Struck [by heat] like the herb and dried up is my heart; for I forget to eat my bread.
Leeser Tanakh
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 vanish in smoke, and my bones are burning like a hearth.
5(102:6) Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:17And the elders of the house arose about him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, and he did not partake of any bread with them.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh it: the terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 30:30My skin hangeth down black from me, and my bones are burnt from heat.
Psalms 6:2(6:3) Be gracious unto me, O Lord; for I am withering away; heal me, O Lord; for my bones are terrified.
Psalms 42:6(42:7) O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and from the peaks of Chermon, from the low mount.
Psalms 69:20(69:21) Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am sick; and I waited for 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 →