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NET Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

My heart is afflicted, withered like grass;
I even forget to eat my food.

International Standard Version

Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

Amplified


My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.

Darby Translation

My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.

Julia Smith Translation

My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food.

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

References

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Easton

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

3 For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace. 4 My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food. 5 Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.


Cross References

Psalm 37:2

For they will quickly dry up like grass, and wither away like plants.

Isaiah 40:7

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

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.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

Peninnah would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the Lord's house, Peninnah would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.

2 Samuel 12:17

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.

Job 6:4

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

"I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 33:20

so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.

Psalm 6:2-3

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am frail! Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking!

Psalm 42:6

I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.

Psalm 69:20

Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

Psalm 77:3

I said, "I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me." (Selah)

Psalm 102:9

For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

Psalm 102:11

My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 143:3-4

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.

Lamentations 3:13

(He) He shot his arrows into my heart.

Lamentations 3:20

I continually think about this, and I am depressed.

Matthew 26:37-38

He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed.

Acts 9:9

For three days he could not see, and he neither ate nor drank anything.

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