Parallel Verses
NET Bible
My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.
New American Standard Bible
Indeed, I
King James Version
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Holman Bible
I even forget to eat my food.
International Standard Version
Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.
A Conservative Version
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
American Standard Version
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
Amplified
My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.
Darby Translation
My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
Julia Smith Translation
My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.
King James 2000
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
Modern King James verseion
My heart is stricken, and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
New Heart English Bible
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
The Emphasized Bible
Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food.
Webster
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
World English Bible
My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
Youngs Literal Translation
Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
3 For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace. 4 My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food. 5 Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.
Cross References
Psalm 37:2
For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.
Isaiah 40:7
The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the Lord blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.
1 Samuel 1:7-8
Peninnah would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the Lord's house, Peninnah would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.
2 Samuel 12:17
The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God's sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
Job 10:1
"I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 33:20
so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
Psalm 6:2-3
Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am frail! Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking!
Psalm 42:6
I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Psalm 55:4-5
My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.
Psalm 69:20
Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
Psalm 77:3
I said, "I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me." (Selah)
Psalm 102:9
For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
Psalm 102:11
My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
Psalm 143:3-4
Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.
Lamentations 3:13
(He) He shot his arrows into my heart.
Lamentations 3:20
I continually think about this, and I am depressed.
Matthew 26:37-38
He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed.
Acts 9:9
For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.