Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
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.
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.
NET Bible
My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.
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 consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
Cross References
Psalm 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
Isaiah 40:7
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.
Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.
1 Samuel 1:7-8
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
2 Samuel 12:17
And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 33:20
So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.
Psalm 6:2-3
Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
Psalm 42:6
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Psalm 55:4-5
My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Psalm 69:20
Reproach 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 77:3
I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Psalm 143:3-4
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Lamentations 3:13
He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations 3:20
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
Matthew 26:37-38
And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled.
Acts 9:9
And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink.