Psalm 102:4 My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food.

English Standard Version
My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.

New American Standard Bible
My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

King James Bible
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My heart is afflicted, withered like grass; I even forget to eat my food.

International Standard Version
Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

Darby Bible Translation
My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.

Young's Literal Translation
Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

Cross References

James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it wither the grass, and the flower thereof falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

1 Samuel 1:7
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

2 Samuel 12:17
And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

Job 33:20
So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.

Psalm 6:2
Have mercy on me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Psalm 90:5
You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

Psalm 90:6
In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and wither.

Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declines; and I am withered like grass.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

102:1-11 The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, is often elsewhere, the Holy Ghost has put words into our mouths. Here is a prayer put into the hands of the afflicted; let them present it to God. Even good men may be almost overwhelmed with afflictions. It is our duty and interest to pray; and it is comfort to an afflicted spirit to unburden itself, by a humble representation of its griefs. We must say, Blessed be the name of the Lord, who both gives and takes away. The psalmist looked upon himself as a dying man; My days are like a shadow.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. (Compare Ps 121:6).

so that I forget—or, "have forgotten," that is, in my distress (Ps 107:18), and hence strength fails.