Psalms 102:4
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 102 connects to 10 cross-references. A prayer of the afflicted — the heading is unique in describing the psalmist's distress — lamenting wasted days, dried bones, and reproach from enemies. The pivot comes with meditation on God's everlasting throne. God will arise and have pity …
Other Translations
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
Cross References
Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy …
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she …
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of …
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness …
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God …
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he …
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.