Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Heart

Psalm 6:2

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

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 143:3

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.
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 am disgusted with my life and loathe it!
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Lamentations 3:13

He has caused the arrows of His quiver
To enter my inner parts.
Matthew 26:37
And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], He began to be grieved and greatly distressed.

Withered

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 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.

So that

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears
1 Samuel 1:7
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.
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.
Acts 9:9
And he was unable to see for three days, and he neither ate nor drank.

General references

Ezekiel 12:18
“Son of man, eat your bread with anxiety, and drink your water with trembling and with fear.