KJV King James Version
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
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Psalm 102:4
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
WEB World English Bible
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
ASV American Standard Version
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
Surrounding context — Psalm 102
1 A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
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.
4 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.
7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
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Isaiah 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.Psalm 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.1 Samuel 1:7-8And [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.Psalm 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.Acts 9:9And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.Ezra 10:6Then 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.Matthew 26:37-38And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.Job 33:20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.Psalm 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,Psalm 55:4-5My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.Lamentations 3:13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.Psalm 6:2-3Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.Lamentations 3:20My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.Psalm 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.Psalm 143:3-4For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.Psalm 42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.2 Samuel 12:17And 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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