Psalms 102:4
What meaning of the psalms 102:4 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 102:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread."
What does Psalms 102:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread."
Verse Psalms 102:4. _MY HEART IS SMITTEN, AND WITHERED LIKE GRASS_] The metaphor here is taken from grass cut down in the meadow. It is first _smitten_ with the _scythe_, and then _withered_ by the _s...
MY HEART IS SMITTEN - Broken; crushed with grief. We now speak of “a broken heart.” Even death is often caused by such excessive sorrow as to crush and break the heart. AND WITHERED LIKE GRASS - It i...
Psalms 102 Christ the King in His Humiliation _ 1. In the place of humiliation and dependence (Psalms 102:1)_ 2. His enemies (Psalms 102:8) 3. The set time for Zion (Psalms 102:12) 4. The blessi...
CII. The title, which is unique in the Psalter, describes the contents of Psalms 102:1 very well. So far the Ps. is the prayer of a man in extreme affliction. The same may be said of Psalms 102:23 and...
BREAD. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, for food in general....
SO THAT I FORGET— _Because I forget._ Green. Mudge joins the end of this to the next verse, _I forget to eat my bread for the voice of my groaning._...
PSALMS 102 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Prayer of a Humbled One brings a Threefold Answer of Peace. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 102:1-11, A Humbled One's Complaint. Stanza II., Psalms 102:12-17, The FIRST...
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. MY HEART - the seat of vital power. IS SMITTEN, AND WITHERED LIKE GRASS - when smitten by the sun (Psalms 121:6),...
102:4 yea, (a-9) Or 'for.'...
This Ps. belongs to the closing days of the exile, and utters the hope of Israel's restoration (Psalms 102:13). The Psalmist has been supposed by some to speak simply in the name of the nation, but it...
Psalms 90:106 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ A YOUNG MAN WITH TROUBLE PSALMS 102 JESUS SAID, "DO NOT LET TROUBLE STAY IN YOUR MIND. *BELIEVE IN GOD AND BELIEVE IN ME ALSO". (JOHN 14:1) "DESTROY THIS *TEMPLE...
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. 1 Samuel 1:7; 1 Samuel 20:34, &c. (Comp. Homer, _Iliad,...
_[Psalms 102:5]_ הוּכָּֽה ־כָ֭ † עֵשֶׂב וַ יִּבַ֣שׁ לִבִּ֑י כִּֽי ־שָׁ֝כַ֗חְתִּי מֵ אֲכֹ֥ל לַחְמִֽי׃...
Psalms 102:1 Psalms 102:13 show that the psalm was written when Zion was in ruins and the time of her restoration at hand. Sadness shot with hope, as a cloud with sunlight, is the singer's mood. The p...
THE CRY OF THE AFFLICTED Psalms 102:1 This is the fifth of the Penitential Psalms. Some hold that it is one of the later psalms, asking for deliverance from captivity; others, emphasizing certain Da...
This is a song of faith triumphing over affliction. Beginning with a prayer for deliverance, and a statement of the circumstances of suffering in which he then was, together with a recognition of thos...
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget (d) to eat my bread. (d) My sorrows were so great that I did not eat....
I make no chasm in the reading of these verses, because they form together a complete detail of the state of the sufferer, and serve the better, in an united point of view, to interest our hearts in t...
4_My heart is smitten, and dried up like grass _Here he employs a third similitude, declaring that his heart is withered, and wholly dried up like mown grass. But he intends to express something more...
Psalms 102 is one of the most, perhaps the most, remarkable of all the psalms, and presents Christ in a way divinely admirable. Verse 10 (Psalms 102:10) gives the occasion of the cry with which the ps...
MY HEART IS SMITTEN, AND WITHERED LIKE GRASS,.... Like grass in the summer solstice d, which being smitten with the heat of the sun, or by some blast of thunder and lightning, is dried up, and withers...
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. Ver. 4. _My heart is smitten_] Blasted with thine indignation, that _ventus urens et exsiccans._ So that I forget to e...
_My heart is withered like grass_ Which is smitten and withered by the heat of the sun, either while it stands, or after it is cut down. _So that I forget to eat my bread_ Because my mind is wholly sw...
COMPLAINT OF ONE IN GREAT TROUBLE. A prayer of the afflicted, one in great misery and distress, when he is overwhelmed, Psalms 61:2, and poureth out his complaint, as from an inverted vessel, in a fu...
1-11 The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, is often elsewhere, the Holy Ghost has put words into our mouths. Here is a prayer put into the hands of the afflicted; let them...
LIKE GRASS; which is smitten and withered by the heat of the sun, either whilst it stands, or after it is cut down. I FORGET TO EAT MY BREAD, because my mind is wholly swallowed up with the contemplat...
Psalms 102:4 heart H3820 stricken H5221 (H8717) withered H3001 (H8799) grass H6212 forget H7911 (H8804) eat H398 (H8800) bread H3899 heart - Psalms 6:2-3, Psalms 42:6, Psalms 55:4-5,...
Kindly notice the title of this Psalm: «Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.» I call your attention to it in order to remind you what charges...
CONTENTS: Sorrowful complaint of great afflictions and a believing prospect of deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The greatest ease to an afflicted spirit is to unburden itself by a...
It appears from Psalms 102:13, that this psalm was written in Babylon, and near the time of the Jewish emancipation. It is highly prophetic of the greater deliverance by the Messiah, whose law should...
_Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto Thee._ THOUGHTS OF COMFORT AND COMPLAINT I. Thoughts of complaint (Psalms 102:1). 1. Concerning bodily sufferings. (1) The physical anguish of lif...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 102:1. The title, “A Prayer of one afflicted,” makes it clear that this is an individual lament. At the same time, it is certainly not individualistic: the “I” who sings thi...
INTRODUCTION It is impossible to determine on what occasion and by whom this Psalm was composed. Prof. Alexander and Hengstenberg regard it as a composition of David. But from internal evidence, espec...
EXPOSITION THE "title" of this psalm is altogether peculiar, being "a Prayer for the afflicted, when he faints, and pours out his complaint before Jehovah." This is clearly a general direction for th...
In Psalms 102:1-28, David begins with a prayer asking God to hear his prayer. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline...
1 Samuel 1:7; 1 Samuel 1:8; Acts 9:9; Ezra 10:6; Isaiah 40:7; Job 10:1; Job 6:4; Lamentations 3:13; Lamentations 3:20; Matthew 26:37;...