Psalms 102:4

His heart is struck down and withered like grass, so that he forgets to eat. Grief has overtaken his very appetite for life.

Cross-references · 20

• Isa 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
• Ps 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
• Matt 26:37–38And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
• Ezra 10:6Then Ezra 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.
• Acts 9:9And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
• 1 Sam 1:7–8And 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.
• Ps 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
• Lam 3:13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
• Job 6:4For 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.
• Ps 69:20Reproach 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.
• Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Ps 55:4–5My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
• Job 33:20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
• 2 Sam 12:17And 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.
• Ps 42:6O 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 143:3–4For 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.
• Ps 6:2–3Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
• Lam 3:20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
• Ps 102:11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
• Ps 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

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