Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten 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.
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.
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.
Topics
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
3 For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned. 4 Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread. 5 From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.
Cross References
Psalm 37:2
For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.
Isaiah 40:7
Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people is grass;
Ezra 10:6
And Ezra riseth from before the house of God, and goeth unto the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib; yea, he goeth there, bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk, for he is mourning because of the trespass of the removal.
1 Samuel 1:7-8
And so he doth year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of Jehovah, so it provoketh her, and she weepeth, and doth not eat.
2 Samuel 12:17
And the elders of his house rise against him, to raise him up from the earth, and he hath not been willing, nor hath he eaten with them bread;
Job 6:4
For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!
Job 10:1
My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 33:20
And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food.
Psalm 6:2-3
Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,
Psalm 42:6
In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Psalm 55:4-5
My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.
Psalm 69:20
Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.
Psalm 77:3
I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah.
Psalm 102:9
Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,
Psalm 102:11
My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
Psalm 143:3-4
For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.
Lamentations 3:13
He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.
Lamentations 3:20
Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.
Matthew 26:37-38
And having taken Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful, and to be very heavy;
Acts 9:9
and he was three days without seeing, and he did neither eat nor drink.