Psalm 102:4

New International Reader's Version

My strength has dried up like grass. I even forget to eat my food.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:17

His most trusted servants stood beside him. They wanted him to get up from the ground. But he refused to do it. And he wouldn’t eat any food with them.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra left the house of God. He went to Jehohanan’s room. Jehohanan was the son of Eliashib. While Ezra was there, he didn’t eat any food. He didn’t drink any water. That’s because he was filled with sadness. He mourned because the people weren’t faithful to the Lord’s commands. Those people were the ones who had returned from the land of Babylon.

Job 10:1

“I’m sick of living. So I’ll talk openly about my problems. I’ll speak out because my spirit is bitter.

Job 30:30

My skin grows black and peels. My body burns with fever.

Job 33:20

They might feel so bad they can’t eat anything. They might even hate the finest food.

Job 6:4

The Mighty One has shot me with his arrows. I have to drink their poison. God’s terrors are aimed at me.

Psalm 102:11

The days of my life are like an evening shadow. I dry up like grass.

Psalm 102:9

I eat ashes as my food. My tears fall into what I’m drinking.

Psalm 37:2

Like grass, they will soon dry up. Like green plants, they will soon die.

Psalm 42:6

My spirit is very sad deep down inside me. So I will remember you here where the Jordan River begins. I will remember you here on the Hermon mountains and on Mount Mizar.

Psalm 69:20

They have broken my heart by saying evil things about me. It has left me helpless. I looked for pity, but I didn’t find any. I looked for someone to comfort me, but I didn’t find anyone.

Psalm 77:3

God, I remembered you, and I groaned. I thought about you, and I became weak.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass dries up. The flowers fall to the ground. That happens when the Lord makes his wind blow on them. So people are just like grass.

Lamentations 3:13

The arrows from his bag have gone through my heart.

Lamentations 3:20

I remember it very well. My spirit is very sad deep down inside me.

Acts 9:9

For three days he was blind. He didn’t eat or drink anything.