Verse 4

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Referenced Verses

• 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 Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
• Ezra 10:6 : 6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.
• Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
• Job 10:1 : 1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. 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 on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled. 3 My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?
• Lam 3:13 : 13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
• Lam 3:20 : 20 My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
• Matt 26:37-38 : 37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
• Acts 9:9 : 9 He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.
• Ps 42:6 : 6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
• Ps 55:4-5 : 4 My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
• Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
• Ps 77:3 : 3 I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
• Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
• Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
• Ps 143:3-4 : 3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead. 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
• 1 Sam 1:7-8 : 7 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep? Why don't you eat? 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 stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.