Psalms 102:4
Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herthe.
5For the voyce of my groning my bones doe cleaue to my skinne.
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:17Then the Elders of his house arose to come vnto him, and to cause him to rise from the groud: but he would not, neither did he eate meate with them.
Job 6:4For the arrowes of the Almightie are in me, the venime whereof doeth drinke vp my spirit, and the terrours of God fight against me.
Job 30:30My skinne is blacke vpon me, and my bones are burnt with heate.
Psalms 6:2Haue mercie vpon me, O Lord, for I am weake: O Lord heale me, for my bones are vexed.
Psalms 42:6My God, my soule is cast downe within me, because I remember thee, from the land of Iorden, and Hermonim, and from the mount Mizar.
Psalms 69:20Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, 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 →