Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

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

For the enemy has persecuted my soul. He has smitten my life down to the ground. He has made me to dwell in dark places as those who have been long dead.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

And having taken Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and distressed.

Withered

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

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

The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of LORD blows upon it. Surely the people is grass.

So that

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

And [as] he did so year by year when she went up to the house of LORD, so she provoked her. Therefore she wept, and did not eat.

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber 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 those of the captivit

And he was three days not seeing, and did not eat or drink.

General references

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness.