92:7 When the wicked sprout up like grass,
and all the evildoers glisten, 1
it is so that they may be annihilated. 2
102:4 My heart is parched 3 and withered like grass,
for I am unable 4 to eat food. 5
104:14 He provides grass 6 for the cattle,
and crops for people to cultivate, 7
so they can produce food from the ground, 8
1 tn Or “flourish.”
2 tn Heb “in order that they might be destroyed permanently.”
3 tn Heb “struck, attacked.”
4 tn Heb “I forget.”
5 sn I am unable to eat food. During his time of mourning, the psalmist refrained from eating. In the following verse he describes metaphorically the physical effects of fasting.
5 tn Heb “causes the grass to sprout up.”
6 tn Heb “for the service of man” (see Gen 2:5).
7 tn Heb “to cause food to come out from the earth.”