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Psalms 102:4
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My heart is suffering, withered like grass;I even forget to eat my food.
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is like grass that has been cut and dried. I forget to eat.
My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.
My heart has been struck like grass and withered, Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.
My heart has been struck like grass and has withered, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread.
Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread.
My heart has been stricken like grass and it has dried up,Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
I am wasting away like grass, and my appetite is gone.
For my days are vanishing like smoke, my bones are burning like a furnace.
My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
My heart is smitten and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
I am beaten down like dry grass; I have lost my desire for food.
My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is stricken and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
My hert is smytte downe and wythered like grasse, so that I forget to eate my bred.
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grasse: so that I forget to eate my bread.
My heart is smitten downe and wythered lyke grasse: because I did forget to eate my bread.
I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I forget to eat my bread.
I am smytun as hei, and myn herte dried vp; for Y haue foryete to eete my breed.
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is stricken and withered like grass, So that I forget to eat my bread.
My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.
My heart is crushed and dried like grass. And I forget to eat my food.
My heart is stricken and withered like grass; I am too wasted to eat my bread.
Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food.
(101-5) I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; I forget to eat my bread.
Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
Contextual Overview
A prayer for a time of suffering, when anyone feels weak and wants to tell their complaints to the Lord .
Lord , hear my prayer. Listen to my cry for help. 2 Don't turn away from me when I have troubles. Listen to me, and answer me quickly when I cry for help. 3 My life is passing away like smoke. My life is like a fire slowly burning out. 4 My strength is gone— I am like dry, dying grass. I even forget to eat. 5 Because of my sadness, I am losing so much weight that my skin hangs from my bones. 6 I am lonely, like an owl living in the desert, like an owl living among old ruined buildings. 7 I cannot sleep. I am like a lonely bird on the roof. 8 My enemies insult me all the time. They make fun of me and use me as an example in their curses. 9 My great sadness is my only food. My tears fall into my drink. 10 You were angry with me, so you picked me up and threw me away.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
heart: Psalms 6:2, Psalms 6:3, Psalms 42:6, Psalms 55:4, Psalms 55:5, Psalms 69:20, Psalms 77:3, Psalms 143:3, Psalms 143:4, Job 6:4, Job 10:1, Lamentations 3:13, Lamentations 3:20, Matthew 26:37, Matthew 26:38
withered: Psalms 102:11, Psalms 37:2, Isaiah 40:7
so that: Psalms 102:9, 1 Samuel 1:7, 1 Samuel 1:8, Ezra 10:6, Acts 9:9
Reciprocal: Psalms 32:4 - moisture Psalms 109:22 - and my Psalms 109:24 - my flesh Psalms 119:83 - like a bottle in the smoke Psalms 142:3 - my spirit Isaiah 38:14 - a crane Jeremiah 4:9 - that the heart Ezekiel 12:18 - General 1 Peter 1:24 - all flesh
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass,.... Like grass in the summer solstice d, which being smitten with the heat of the sun, or by some blast of thunder and lightning, is dried up, and withers away; so his heart was smitten with a sense of sin, and of God's wrath and displeasure at him, and with the heat of affliction and trouble, that it failed him, and he could not look up with joy and comfort:
so that I forget to eat my bread; sometimes, through grief and trouble, persons refuse to eat bread, as Jonathan and Ahab, which is a voluntary act, and purposely done; but here, in the psalmist, there was such a loss of appetite, through sorrow, that he forgot his stated meals, having no manner of inclination to food: some understand this of spiritual food, the bread of life, refusing to be comforted with it; so the Targum,
"for I forgot the law of my doctrine.''
d "Quasi solstitialis herba paulisper fui", Plauti Pseudolus, Act. 1. Sc. 1. v. 36.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My heart is smitten - Broken; crushed with grief. We now speak of “a broken heart.” Even death is often caused by such excessive sorrow as to crush and break the heart.
And withered like grass - It is dried up as grass is by drought, or as when it is cut down. It loses its support; and having no strength of its own, it dies.
So that I forget to eat my bread - I am so absorbed in my trials; they so entirely engross my attention, that I think of nothing else, not even of those things which are necessary to the support of life. Grief has the effect of taking away the appetite, but this does not seem to be the idea here. It is that of such a complete absorption in trouble that everything else is forgotten.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 102:4. My heart is smitten, and withered like grass — The metaphor here is taken from grass cut down in the meadow. It is first smitten with the scythe, and then withered by the sun. Thus the Jews were smitten with the judgments of God; and they are now withered under the fire of the Chaldeans.
