Psalms 102:4

In 11 translations

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.

LSV

Struck as the herb, and withered, is my heart, || For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

YLT

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

DBY

My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.

DRC101:5

I am smitten as grass, and my heart is withered: because I forgot to eat my bread.

GNV

Mine heart is smitten and withereth like grasse, because I forgate to eate my bread.

JPS102:5

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; for I forget to eat my bread.

LXXE101:5

I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.

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Original-language editions

WLC102:5

הוּכָּֽה־כָ֭עֵשֶׂב וַיִּבַ֣שׁ לִבִּ֑י כִּֽי־שָׁ֝כַ֗חְתִּי מֵאֲכֹ֥ל לַחְמִֽי׃KJV:Ps.102.4

LXX-Br101:5

Ἐπλήγην ὡσεὶ χόρτος, καὶ ἐξηράνθη ἡ καρδία μου, ὅτι ἐπελαθόμην τοῦ φαγεῖν τὸν ἄρτον μου.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
• Psalms 37:2For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
• Ezra 10:6Then 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…
• 2 Samuel 12:17The 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.
• Matthew 26:37–38He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
• Acts 9:9For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.
• 1 Samuel 1:7–8And 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. “Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat?…
• Psalms 77:3I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
• Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Psalms 69:20Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
• Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
• Psalms 55:4–5My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me. Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
• Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
• Psalms 143:3–4For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead. My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
• Lamentations 3:20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
• Psalms 6:2–3Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony. My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long?

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