Psalms 102:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.”
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“My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.”
King James Version · Public Domain“My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 102:4 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 1:7And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.
- 2 Samuel 12:17The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
- Ezra 10:6Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he stayed there, he ate no food and drank no water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
- Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
- Job 33:20so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
- Psalms 6:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- Psalms 37:2For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
- Psalms 42:6O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.
- Psalms 55:4My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
- Psalms 69:20Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
- Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
- Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
- Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Psalms 143:3For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
- Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
- Lamentations 3:13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
- Lamentations 3:20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
- Matthew 26:37He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
- Acts 9:9For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.
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