Psalms 102:4
2 Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
3 For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
5 Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
6 I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
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Compare
- BSB
- My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
- KJV
- My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
- WEB
- My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
- ASV
- My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
- DARBY
- My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
- BLB
- My heart has been struck like the grass and has withered, [so] that I forget to eat my bread.
- ÅB
- Mitt hjerte er stukket som en urt og fortørket; for jeg har glemt å spise mitt brød.
- OTB
- Mitt hjerte er slått og visnet som gress,
Ja, jeg glemmer å spise mitt brød. - B1930
- Mitt hjerte er stukket som en urt og fortørket; for jeg har glemt å ete mitt brød.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
Read in contextPsalms 37:2
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
Read in contextEzra 10:6
Then 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.
Read in contextActs 9:9
For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.
Read in contextMatthew 26:37–38
He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
Read in context2 Samuel 12:17
The 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.
Read in context1 Samuel 1:7–8
And 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.
Read in contextPsalms 77:3
I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
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