Psalm 102:4

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of LORD blows upon it. Surely the people is grass.

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Psalm 77:3

I remember God, and am disquieted. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. And [when] he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water, for he mourned because of the trespass of those of the captivit

Acts 9:9

And he was three days not seeing, and did not eat or drink.

Lamentations 3:20

My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

Lamentations 3:13

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 42:6

O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Job 33:20

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Job 10:1

My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the ground, but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

Job 30:30

My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.