Psalms 102:4
2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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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 withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
Read in contextPsalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Read in contextEzra 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.
Read in contextActs 9:9
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
Read in contextMatthew 26:37–38
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
Read in context2 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.
Read in context1 Samuel 1:7–8
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.
Read in contextPsalms 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
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