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Psalms 102:4

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

KJV

qui redimit de interitu vitam tuam ; qui coronat te in misericordia et miserationibus :

Vulgate

τὸν λυτρούμενον ἐκ φθορᾶς τὴν ζωήν σου, τὸν στεφανοῦντά σε ἐν ἐλέει καὶ οἰκτειρμοῖς,

LXX

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

ASV

כִּֽי כָל֣וּ בְ/עָשָׁ֣ן יָמָ֑/י וְ֝/עַצְמוֹתַ֗/י כְּ/מוֹ קֵ֥ד נִחָֽרוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

י
y
noun · 126×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כְּמוֹ
kmv
preposition · 142×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
ם
m
verb · 203×
מוֹקְדֵ֥י
mvqdy
noun · 2×
נָחָ֔ר
nchr
verb · 11×
עָשָׁ֣ן
'shn
noun · 24×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
  • 1Sam 1:7 — 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.
  • Acts 9:9 — And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
  • Ezra 10:6 — Then 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
  • Isa 38:14 — Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Isa 40:7 — The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
  • Matt 26:37 — And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
  • Ps 37:2 — For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
  • Ps 77:3 — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Ps 109:22 — For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
  • Ps 109:24 — My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
  • Ps 142:3 — When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.