Psalms 102:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־כָל֣וּ בְעָשָׁ֣ן יָמָ֑י וְ֝עַצְמוֹתַ֗י כְּמוֹ־קֵ֥ד נִחָֽרוּ׃

Transliteration

For ḵālû in ʿāšān yāmāy and ʿaṣmôtay like-qēḏ niḥārû

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ḵālû*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they are consumed/ended
• *ḇᵉʿāšān*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in smoke
• *yāmāy*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my days
• *wᵉ*: conjunction - and
• *ʿaṣmôtay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my bones
• *kᵉmô*: preposition - like/as
• *qēḏ*: noun, masculine singular - firebrand/burning stick
• *niḥārû*: verb, Niphal perfect, 3rd common plural - they are burned/scorched

Word Meanings

• *ḵālû*: consumed/ended/vanished
• *ʿāšān*: smoke/vapor
• *ʿaṣmôtay*: my bones/my frame
• *qēḏ*: firebrand/burning stick/hearth
• *niḥārû*: burned/scorched/kindled

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. {H5542}
• 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.