A moment in scripture
Psalms 102:4
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My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 102:2
Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
- Psalms 102:3
For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
- Psalms 102:5
By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
- Psalms 102:6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.