Psalm 102:4
My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
Cross-reference
In Psalm 102:11, the same psalm repeats the withering-like-grass imagery, reinforcing the theme of transience and affliction.
In Psalm 102:9, the same psalmist describes eating ashes like bread, intensifying the image of lost appetite and mourning.
In Psalm 143:4, the same lament of a fainting spirit and appalled heart mirrors the psalmist's smitten heart here.
In Psalm 69:20, reproach breaking the heart parallels the psalmist's heart smitten, both expressing deep emotional pain and isolation.
In Psalm 55:4, the heart sore pained within directly parallels the psalmist's heart smitten, both describing intense inner anguish.
In Psalm 109:22, the psalmist's heart is stricken within him, a direct parallel to the struck-down, withered heart.
In Psalm 109:24, fasting makes knees weak and body gaunt, a physical consequence similar to forgetting to eat.
In Psalm 32:4, the psalmist's strength dries up under God's heavy hand, matching the withered heart and lost appetite.
In Psalm 37:2, the wicked fade like grass, while here the righteous sufferer withers — same metaphor, different subjects.
In Psalm 42:6, the soul cast down within mirrors the psalmist's heart smitten and withered like grass, both expressing spiritual depression.
In Psalm 6:3, the soul being sore vexed parallels the psalmist's smitten heart and forgotten bread, both cries of deep distress.
In Psalm 6:2, the plea for healing of vexed bones echoes the psalmist's smitten heart and physical weakness here.
In Psalm 55:5, fearfulness and trembling overwhelming the psalmist parallels the heart smitten and forgotten bread, both states of extreme distress.
In Psalm 77:3, the spirit overwhelmed and troubled parallels the psalmist's heart smitten and forgotten bread, both laments of affliction.
In Psalm 143:3, the enemy smiting life down to the ground parallels the psalmist's heart smitten, both describing being brought low.
In Matthew 26:38, Jesus' sorrow to death directly echoes the psalmist's heart smitten like grass — extreme anguish unto death.
In 1 Peter 1:24, all flesh is as grass that withers — the same image of withered grass used here for human frailty.
In Job 6:4, Job's 'arrows of the Almighty' striking him parallels the psalmist's heart being smitten, both describing divine affliction.
In Isaiah 40:7, grass withering symbolizes human frailty, echoing the psalmist's personal withering as a universal condition.
In Lamentations 3:13, God's arrows entering the kidneys parallels being smitten; both depict suffering as divine attack.
In Ezra 10:6, Ezra mourns by not eating or drinking, a similar physical response to grief as forgetting to eat.
In 1 Samuel 1:8, Elkanah asks why Hannah won't eat and why her heart is sad, directly echoing the psalmist's condition.
In 1 Samuel 1:7, Hannah's distress causes her to weep and refuse food, mirroring the psalmist's forgotten bread.
In Job 10:1, Job's loathing of life and bitter complaint echoes the psalmist's deep distress and loss of appetite.
In Isaiah 38:14, Hezekiah's chattering and mourning echo the same physical anguish — both are laments of bodily weakness.
In Ezekiel 12:18, eating bread with trembling contrasts with forgetting to eat — both show distress affecting appetite.
In Matthew 26:37, Jesus' sorrow and trouble in Gethsemane parallels the psalmist's heart smitten — both in deep anguish.
In Acts 9:9, Saul neither eats nor drinks during his blindness, a parallel physical deprivation from distress.