³ For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

Phrases

Heart is Overwhelmed

Heart Is Sick

Cross References

Psalm 37:2

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

Isaiah 40:7

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

Ezra 10:6

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

1 Samuel 1:7-8

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.

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the ground, but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

Job 6:4

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.

Job 10:1

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

Job 33:20

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Psalm 6:2-3

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am withered away. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 42:6

O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is greatly pained within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Psalm 69:20

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.

Psalm 77:3

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

Psalm 102:9

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

Psalm 102:11

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

Psalm 143:3-4

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.

Lamentations 3:13

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

Lamentations 3:20

My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

Matthew 26:37-38

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

Acts 9:9

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