Psalms 102:4
Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
In Context
3For, consumed in smoke, are my days, And, my bones, like a burning mass, are scorched through;
5At the noise of my groaning, my bone, hath cleaved, to my flesh:
Cross References
2 Samuel 12:17And the elders of his house stood up over him, to raise him from the ground,—but he would not, neither would he eat food with them.
Job 6:4For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.
Job 30:30My skin, turned black, and peeled off me, and, my bones, burned with heat:
Psalms 6:2Show me favour, O Yahweh, for languishing am I: Heal me, O Yahweh,—for dismayed are my bones:
Psalms 42:6My God! over myself, my soul is cast down,—For this cause, will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Psalms 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am weak,—Though I waited for one to pity me, yet there was none, And for comforters, yet I found not any.
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 →