Psalms 102:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

Psalms 102:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 37:2
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Isaiah 40:7
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
Psalms 77:3
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
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 transgression of them that had been carried away.
Psalms 42:6
O 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.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Hades Immortality Life Man Soul

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a prayer of the afflicted. It was composed by one that was himself afflicted, afflicted with the church and for it; and on those that are of a public spirit afflictions of that kind lie heavier than any other. It is calculated for an afflicted state, and is intended for the use of others that may be in the like distress; for whatsoever things were…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. (Compare Psa 121:6). so that I forget--or, “have forgotten,” that is, in my distress (Psa 107:18), and hence strength fails.