Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

My heart is afflicted, withered like grass;
I even forget to eat my food.

International Standard Version

Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.

Darby Translation

My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.

Julia Smith Translation

My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

Modern King James verseion

My heart is stricken, and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

New Heart English Bible

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

The Emphasized Bible

Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food.

Webster

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

World English Bible

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Youngs Literal Translation

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

References

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Easton

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

3 For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. 4 My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.
5 Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

Cross References

Psalm 37:2

For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the LORD, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 10:1

"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 33:20

so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.

Psalm 6:2-3

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 42:6

and my God.My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Psalm 69:20

Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 77:3

When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah

Psalm 102:9

For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead.

Lamentations 3:13

He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;

Lamentations 3:20

My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.

Matthew 26:37-38

And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.

Acts 9:9

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

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