Psalms 102:4 · KJV
“My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.”
— Psalms 102:4
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}
Psalms 102 — Context
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.
3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. {like...: or, (as some read) into smoke}
4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. {skin: or, flesh}
6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
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.
Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
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. {when...: or, from the time that she, etc: Heb. from her going up}
Acts 9:9
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
Matthew 26:37-38
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
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.
Psalms 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}