Psalms 102:4

World English Bible (2000)

My heart is blighted 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 like the green herb.
  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
  • Ezra 10:6 : 6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank 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. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God 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 abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled. 3 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?
  • Lam 3:13 : 13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
  • Lam 3:20 : 20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
  • Acts 9:9 : 9 He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
  • Ps 143:3-4 : 3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead. 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
  • 1 Sam 1:7-8 : 7 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? 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 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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    3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

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

    10 Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

    11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • Ps 102:5
    81%

    5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

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

  • Ps 22:14-15
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    14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • Ps 38:10
    78%

    10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

  • Ps 109:22-24
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    77%

    22 for I am poor and needy. My heart is wounded within me.

    23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

    24 My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    77%

    9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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

  • Ps 38:6-8
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    6 I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

    7 For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

    8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

  • Ps 73:21
    75%

    21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

  • Ps 55:4
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    4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

  • Lam 3:4
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    4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.

  • Ps 31:12
    74%

    12 I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

  • Job 3:24
    74%

    24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

  • Lam 1:20
    74%

    20 See, Yahweh; 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
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    74%

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

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

    18 I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

  • Jer 8:18
    73%

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

  • Job 33:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

    21 His flesh is so consumed away, that it can't be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

  • Job 30:16-17
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    73%

    16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

    17 In 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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    13 From on high has he 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
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    3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

    4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

  • Ps 39:10
    73%

    10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • Job 17:1
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    1 "My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Ps 84:2
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    2 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

  • Ps 42:3
    72%

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

  • Ps 69:3
    72%

    3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

  • Ps 102:23
    72%

    23 He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days.

  • Job 7:5
    72%

    5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

  • Job 17:7
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    7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

  • Job 6:7
    72%

    7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

  • Ps 40:12
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    12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

  • Lam 1:11
    72%

    11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.

  • Ps 143:6
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    6 I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

  • Isa 38:12
    71%

    12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me.

  • Job 30:19
    71%

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

  • Ps 6:2
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    2 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.