Psalm 102:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ My heart is stricken and withered like grass, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; So that I forget to eat my bread.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ My heart is smitten like grass and withered, so that [in absorption] I forget to eat my food.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

Common English Bible

⁴ my heart is smashed like dried-up grass. I even forget to eat my food

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ He redeems your life from destruction. He crowns you with mercy and compassion.

Psalm 102:4 Cross References

Isaiah 40:7

“Grass shall wither, the flower shall fade, when the Spirit of יהוה has blown on it! Truly the people is grass!

Psalm 37:2

For they soon wither like grass, And fade like green plants.

Psalm 77:3

I remembered Elohim, and groaned; I complained, and my spirit grew faint. Selah.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra rose up from before the House of Elohim, and went into the room of Yehoḥanan son of Elyashiḇ. And he went there – he ate no bread and drank no water for he mourned because of the trespass of the exiles.

Acts 9:9

And he was three days without sight, and did not eat nor drink.

Lamentations 3:20

Your being indeed remembers And bows down upon me.

Lamentations 3:13

He made the arrows of His quiver pierce my kidneys.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 42:6

O my Elohim, my being is depressed within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Yardĕn, And from the heights of Ḥermon, From Mount Mits‛ar.

Job 33:20

so that his life loathes bread, and his being desirable food.

Job 10:1

“My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, my spirit drinks in their poison, the onslaughts of Eloah are arrayed against me.

2 Samuel 12:17

So the elders of his house stood up over him, to raise him up from the earth. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

Job 30:30

My skin became black upon me, and my bones burned with heat.