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My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
Psalms 102:4 · World English Bible
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  • KJV My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
  • BSB My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
  • NKJV My heart is stricken and withered like grass, So that I forget to eat my bread.
  • NASB My heart has been struck like grass and has withered, Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
  • NLT My heart is sick, withered like grass, and I have lost my appetite.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 20

  • Isa 40:7The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
  • Ps 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
  • Matt 26:37–38He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
  • Ezra 10:6Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.
  • Acts 9:9He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
  • Ps 77:3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
  • 1 Sam 1:7–8As he did so year by year, when she went up to Yahweh’s house. Her rival provoked her; therefore she wept, and didn’t eat.
  • Lam 3:13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
  • Lam 3:20My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
  • Ps 143:3–4For 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.
  • 2 Sam 12:17The elders of his house arose beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, and he didn’t eat bread with them.
  • Ps 42:6My 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 55:4–5My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
  • Ps 69:20Reproach 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 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
  • Ps 102:11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
  • Ps 6:2–3Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
  • Job 6:4For 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 33:20So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
  • Job 10:1“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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