Psalms 102:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that 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 spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
  • Ezra 10:6 : 6 Then a rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 33:20 : 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
  • Lam 3:13 : 13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
  • Lam 3:20 : 20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
  • Acts 9:9 : 9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, 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 remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was 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 darkness, 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 the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. 8 Then said Elkanah her husband to 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 went to 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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  • 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

  • Ps 102:9-11
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    9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

    10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

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

  • 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

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

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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

  • 10 My heart panteth, 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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    22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

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

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

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

    10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Ps 38:6-8
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    6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

    7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

    8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

  • 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

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

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

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

  • 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  • 20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

  • Lam 3:16-18
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    16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

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

    18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

  • 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

  • Job 33:20-21
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    20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

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

  • Job 30:16-17
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    16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

    17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

  • 13 From above 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 desote and faint all the day.

  • Ps 32:3-4
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    3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

    4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

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

  • 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

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

  • 3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

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

  • 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

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

  • 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

  • 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

  • 11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

  • 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

  • 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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

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    2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.