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.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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.

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  • Psalms 37:2

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

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  • 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.

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  • Acts 9:9

    And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.

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  • Matthew 26:37–38

    And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

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  • 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.

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  • 1 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.

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  • Psalms 77:3

    I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

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