Psalms 102:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
  • Ezra 10:6 : 6 Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
  • Job 33:20 : 20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled. 3 My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?
  • Lam 3:13 : 13 He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
  • Lam 3:20 : 20 My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled. 38 Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.
  • Acts 9:9 : 9 And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me. 5 Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
  • Ps 143:3-4 : 3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead. 4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
  • 1 Sam 1:7-8 : 7 And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food. 8 Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?
  • 2 Sam 12:17 : 17 And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 102:3
    83%

    3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

  • Ps 102:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

    10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

    11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

  • Ps 102:5
    81%

    5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    79%

    14 I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

    15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • Ps 38:10
    78%

    10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • Ps 109:22-24
    3 verses
    77%

    22 For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

    23 I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

    24 My knees are feeble for need of food; there is no fat on my bones.

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 38:6-8
    3 verses
    76%

    6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

    7 For my body is full of burning; all my flesh is unhealthy.

    8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

  • Ps 73:21
    75%

    21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

  • Ps 55:4
    75%

    4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • Lam 3:4
    75%

    4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Ps 31:12
    74%

    12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

  • Job 3:24
    74%

    24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

  • Lam 1:20
    74%

    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

  • Lam 3:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

    16 By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

    18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

  • Jer 8:18
    73%

    18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • Job 33:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

    21 His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...

  • Job 30:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

    17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

  • Lam 1:13
    73%

    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • Ps 32:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

    4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

  • Ps 39:10
    73%

    10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Job 17:1
    72%

    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Ps 84:2
    72%

    2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

  • Ps 42:3
    72%

    3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

  • Ps 69:3
    72%

    3 I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

  • Ps 102:23
    72%

    23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

  • Job 7:5
    72%

    5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

  • Job 17:7
    72%

    7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • Job 6:7
    72%

    7 My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

  • Ps 40:12
    72%

    12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

  • Lam 1:11
    72%

    11 Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

  • Ps 143:6
    71%

    6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)

  • Isa 38:12
    71%

    12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

  • Job 30:19
    71%

    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Ps 6:2
    71%

    2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.