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
Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble.
Psalm 42:6
My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.
Psalm 55:4
My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
Psalm 69:20
Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalm 77:3
I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalm 143:3
For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of +God are arrayed 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.
Lamentations 3:13
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Matthew 26:37
And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and deeply depressed.

Withered

Psalm 102:11
My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Psalm 37:2
for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.
Isaiah 40:7
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

So that

Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
1 Samuel 1:7
And as he did so year by year, as often as she went up to the house of Jehovah, she provoked her thus; and she wept and did not eat.
Ezra 10:6
And Ezra arose from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib; and when he came thither, he ate no bread and drank no water; for he mourned because of the unfaithfulness of them that had been carried away.
Acts 9:9
And he was three days without seeing, and neither ate nor drank.

General references

Ezekiel 12:18
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;