Psalms Chapter 102 verse 4 Holy Bible
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
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My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
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My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.
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My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
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My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread.
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Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
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Psalms 102 : 4 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - My heart is smitten. As with a stroke from the sun (see Psalm 121:6; Hosea 9:16). And withered like grass. As grass upon the house tops (Psalm 129:6), or, indeed, in any exposed place under an Eastern sun. So that I forget to eat my bread; literally, for I forget, etc. The fact is adduced as a proof of the heart's condition (comp. Job 33:20; 1 Samuel 1:7; 1 Samuel 20:34, etc.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Smitten.--As by the sun. Exactly as in Hosea 9:16.So that I forget.--Better, for I have forgotten, &c. For this mark of deep sorrow comp. 1Samuel 1:7; 1Samuel 20:34, &c. (Comp. Homer, Iliad, xxiv. 129.)