Psalms 102:4

WEB

⁴My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

KJV

⁴My heart^[+] is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

BSB

⁴My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.

FBV

⁴I'm like grass that's dried up, withered away—I even forget to eat!

Extra References

Isaiah 40:7

⁷The grass withers, the flower fades, because the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

Psalms 37:2

²For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

³⁷He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. ³⁸Then Jesus said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with me.”

1 Samuel 1:7-8

⁷So year by year, when she went up to the LORD’s house, her rival provoked her. Therefore she wept, and didn’t eat. ⁸Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

Psalms 77:3

³I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

Ezra 10:6

⁶Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he didn’t eat bread or drink water, for he mourned because of the trespass of the exiles.

Acts 9:9

⁹He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

Psalms 69:20

²⁰Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Job 10:1

¹“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Lamentations 3:13

¹³He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.