Reproach hath 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 remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

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

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

And he took with him Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

Withered

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

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

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth 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 the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

Then Ezra arose from before the house of God, and went into 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 carried away.

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

General references

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