Verse 4

My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread.

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  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.
  • Ezra 10:6 : 6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib. When he arrived there, he ate no bread and drank no water, for he mourned because of the transgression of those who had been taken captive.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison which drinks up my spirit; the terrors of God have arrayed themselves against me.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 33:20 : 20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled. 3 My soul is also greatly troubled: but You, O LORD, how long?
  • Lam 3:13 : 13 He has caused the arrows of His quiver to pierce my innermost parts.
  • Lam 3:20 : 20 My soul still remembers them and is humbled within me.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very distressed. 38 Then he said to them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death: stay here, and watch with me.
  • Acts 9:9 : 9 And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping,
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 143:3-4 : 3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead. 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
  • 1 Sam 1:7-8 : 7 And so he did year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore Hannah wept and did not eat. 8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why do you weep? and why do you not eat? and why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?
  • 2 Sam 12:17 : 17 The elders of his house arose and went to him to raise him up from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat with them.