Psalms 102:4
My heart is smitten and withered like grass; Yea, I forget to eat my bread.
Noyes Bible
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 life is consumed like smoke, And my bones burn like a brand.
5By reason of my sighing, my bones cleave to my skin;
Cross References
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; Their poison drinketh up my spirit; The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
Job 30:30My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones burn with heat.
Psalms 6:2Have pity upon me, O LORD! for I am weak; Heal me, O LORD! for my bones tremble!
Psalms 42:6My soul is cast down within me, While I remember thee from the land of Jordan and Hermon, From the mountain Mizar.
Psalms 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; I look for pity, but there is none; For comforters, but find 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 →