Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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.

NET Bible

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

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.


Cross References

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

Ezra 10:6

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.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

[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.

2 Samuel 12:17

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.

Job 6:4

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

"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

So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Psalm 6:2-3

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 42:6

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.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

Psalm 69:20

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.

Psalm 77:3

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Psalm 143:3-4

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.

Lamentations 3:13

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.

Lamentations 3:20

My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

Matthew 26:37-38

He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

Acts 9:9

He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

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