Thy rebuke breaketh my heart, and maketh me heavy. I look for some to have pity upon me, but there is no man; and for some to comfort me, but I find none.

When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah.

For the enemy persecuteth my soul; he smiteth my life down to the ground; he layeth me in the darkness, as the dead men of the world.

For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,

{He} The arrows of his quiver hath he shot, even into my reins.

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to wax sorrowful and to be in agony.

Withered

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

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

When the grass is withered, the flower falleth away. Even so is the people as grass, when the breath of the LORD bloweth upon them.

So that

I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping,

And so did she year by year, as oft as she went up to the house of the LORD. And so chafed her: wherefore Hannah wept and ate not.

And Ezra stood up before the house of God, and went in to the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib. And when he came thither, he ate no bread, nor drank water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been in captivity.

And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

General references

"Thou son of man: with a fearful trembling shalt thou eat thy bread, with carefulness and sorrow shalt thou drink thy water.