Psalms 102:4

American Standard Version (1901)

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.
  • Ezra 10:6 : 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.
  • Job 6:4 : 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 : 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 : 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled. 3 My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?
  • Lam 3:13 : 13 He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
  • Lam 3:20 : 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
  • Acts 9:9 : 9 And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink.
  • Ps 42:6 : 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.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, And horror hath overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 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.
  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. {{Selah
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 143:3-4 : 3 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. 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
  • 1 Sam 1:7-8 : 7 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. 8 And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
  • 2 Sam 12:17 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:3
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    3For my days consume away like smoke, And my bones are burned as a firebrand.

  • Ps 102:9-11
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    82%

    9For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

    10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.

    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

  • Ps 102:5
    81%

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3For 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.

    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    79%

    14I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

  • Ps 38:10
    78%

    10My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • Ps 109:22-24
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    77%

    22For I am poor and needy, And my heart is wounded within me.

    23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

    24My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 38:6-8
    3 verses
    76%

    6I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

    7For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.

    8I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • Ps 73:21
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    21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

  • Ps 55:4
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    4My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • Lam 3:4
    75%

    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • Ps 31:12
    74%

    12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

  • Job 3:24
    74%

    24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

  • Lam 1:20
    74%

    20Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • Lam 3:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

    17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

    18And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

  • Jer 8:18
    73%

    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • Job 33:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.

    21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Job 30:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

    17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Ps 32:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

    4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {{Selah

  • Ps 39:10
    73%

    10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Ps 84:2
    72%

    2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

  • Ps 42:3
    72%

    3My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

  • Ps 69:3
    72%

    3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • Ps 102:23
    72%

    23He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.

  • Job 7:5
    72%

    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

  • Job 17:7
    72%

    7Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • Job 6:7
    72%

    7My soul refuseth to touch [them] ; They are as loathsome food to me.

  • Ps 40:12
    72%

    12For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.

  • Lam 1:11
    72%

    11All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.

  • Ps 143:6
    71%

    6I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a weary land. {{Selah

  • Isa 38:12
    71%

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Job 30:19
    71%

    19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Ps 6:2
    71%

    2Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.