Psalms 102:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.
  • Ezra 10:6 : 6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib. When he arrived there, he ate no bread and drank no water, for he mourned because of the transgression of those who had been taken captive.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves 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 abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled. 3 My soul is also greatly troubled: but You, O LORD, how long?
  • Lam 3:13 : 13 He has caused the arrows of His quiver to pierce my innermost parts.
  • Lam 3:20 : 20 My soul still remembers them and is humbled 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 very distressed. 38 Then he said to them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death: stay here, and watch with me.
  • Acts 9:9 : 9 And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach has 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 mixed my drink with weeping,
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 143:3-4 : 3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead. 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
  • 1 Sam 1:7-8 : 7 And so he did year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore Hannah wept and did not eat. 8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why do you weep? and why do you not eat? and why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?
  • 2 Sam 12:17 : 17 The elders of his house arose and went to him to raise him up from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat with them.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Ps 102:3
    83%

    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned like a hearth.

  • Ps 102:9-11
    3 verses
    82%

    9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping,

    10Because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have lifted me up and cast me down.

    11My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

  • Ps 102:5
    81%

    5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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

  • Ps 22:14-15
    2 verses
    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 clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Ps 38:10
    78%

    10My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

  • Ps 109:22-24
    3 verses
    77%

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

    23I am gone like a shadow when it declines; I am tossed up and down like the locust.

    24My knees are weak through fasting, and my flesh is lean of fatness.

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    77%

    9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

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

  • Ps 38:6-8
    3 verses
    76%

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

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

    8I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.

  • Ps 73:21
    75%

    21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

  • Ps 55:4
    75%

    4My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

  • Lam 3:4
    75%

    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has 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 comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

  • Lam 1:20
    74%

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

  • Lam 3:16-18
    3 verses
    74%

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

    17You have moved my soul far from peace; I forgot prosperity.

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

  • Jer 8:18
    73%

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

  • Job 33:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20So that his life abhors 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; the days of affliction have seized me.

    17My bones are pierced in me at night, and my sinews find no rest.

  • Lam 1:13
    73%

    13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Ps 32:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

    4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

  • Ps 39:10
    73%

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

  • Job 17:1
    72%

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

  • Ps 84:2
    72%

    2My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

  • Ps 42:3
    72%

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

  • Ps 69:3
    72%

    3I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my 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 is broken and becomes loathsome.

  • Job 17:7
    72%

    7My eye also is dim because of sorrow, and all my members are like a shadow.

  • Job 6:7
    72%

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

  • Ps 40:12
    72%

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

  • Lam 1:11
    72%

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

  • Ps 143:6
    71%

    6I stretch forth my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a thirsty land. Selah.

  • Isa 38:12
    71%

    12My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

  • Job 30:19
    71%

    19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

  • Ps 6:2
    71%

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