Verse 4

My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 37:2 : 2 For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.
  • Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
  • Ezra 10:6 : 6 Then Ezra got up from in front of the temple of God and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While he stayed there, he did not eat food or drink water, for he was in mourning over the infidelity of the exiles.
  • Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 33:20 : 20 so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am frail! Heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking! 3 I am absolutely terrified, and you, LORD– how long will this continue?
  • Lam 3:13 : 13 ה(He) He shot his arrows into my heart.
  • Lam 3:20 : 20 I continually think about this, and I am depressed.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed. 38 Then he said to them,“My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me.”
  • Acts 9:9 : 9 For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.
  • Ps 42:6 : 6 I am depressed, so I will pray to you while in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
  • Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me. 5 Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
  • Ps 77:3 : 3 I said,“I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me.”(Selah)
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 143:3-4 : 3 Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages. 4 My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
  • 1 Sam 1:7-8 : 7 This is how it would go year after year. As often as she went up to the LORD’s house, Peninnah would offend her that way.) So she cried and refused to eat. 8 Then her husband Elkanah said to her,“Hannah, why are you crying and why won’t you eat? Why are you so upset? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
  • 2 Sam 12:17 : 17 The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.