Psalm 102:4
My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.
Psalm 37:2
For they will wither quickly like the grass,
And fade like the green herb.
Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers, the flower fades,
When the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Most certainly [all] the people are [like] grass.
Ezra 10:6
Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib [and spent the night there]. He did not eat bread nor drink water, for he was mourning over the [former] exiles’ faithlessness.
1 Samuel 1:7-8
So it happened year after year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, Peninnah provoked her; so she wept and would not eat.
2 Samuel 12:17
The elders of his household stood by him [in the night] to lift him up from the ground, but he was unwilling [to get up] and would not eat food with them.
Job 6:4
Because the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
My spirit drinks their poison;
The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 10:1
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 33:20
So that his life makes him loathe food,
And his soul [loathe] even his favorite dishes.
Psalm 6:2-3
Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint, frail);
Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed and anguished.
Psalm 42:6
O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];
Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Psalm 55:4-5
My heart is in anguish within me,
And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
Psalm 69:20
Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick.
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.
Psalm 77:3
I remember God; then I am disquieted and I groan;
I sigh [in prayer], and my spirit grows faint. Selah.
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears
Psalm 102:11
My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.
Psalm 143:3-4
For the enemy has persecuted me,
He has crushed my life down to the ground;
He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
Lamentations 3:13
He has caused the arrows of His quiver
To enter my inner parts.
Lamentations 3:20
My soul continually remembers them
And is bowed down within me.
Matthew 26:37-38
And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], He began to be grieved and greatly distressed.
Acts 9:9
And he was unable to see for three days, and he neither ate nor drank.
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Heart
Withered
So that
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Bible References
Heart
Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint, frail);
Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed and anguished.
O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];
Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
My heart is in anguish within me,
And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick.
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.
I remember God; then I am disquieted and I groan;
I sigh [in prayer], and my spirit grows faint. Selah.
For the enemy has persecuted me,
He has crushed my life down to the ground;
He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
Because the arrows of the Almighty are within me,
My spirit drinks their poison;
The terrors of God are arrayed against me.
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
He has caused the arrows of His quiver
To enter my inner parts.
Withered
My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.
For they will wither quickly like the grass,
And fade like the green herb.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
When the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Most certainly [all] the people are [like] grass.
So that
For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears