Psalm 102:4

Modern English Version

My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

Cross References

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades because the Spirit of the Lord blows upon it; surely the people are grass.

Psalm 37:2

For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 77:3

I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.   Selah

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra stood in front of the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he arrived there, he ate no bread and drank no water because he was mourning over the vile unfaithfulness of the exiles.

Acts 9:9

For three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

Lamentations 3:20

Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

Lamentations 3:13

He has caused the arrows of His quiver to pierce my inward parts.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:9

For I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drink with tears,

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for 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 You from the land of Jordan, and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Job 33:20

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

Job 10:1

“My soul loathes my life; I will freely give my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his house stood beside him to rouse him from the ground, but he was not willing, nor would he consume food with them.

Job 30:30

My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with fever.