Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

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.

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

American

Easton

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

3 For my days vanish like smoke,
and my bones burn like a furnace.
4 My heart is afflicted, withered like grass;
I even forget to eat my food.
5 Because of the sound of my groaning,
my flesh sticks to my bones.


Cross References

Psalm 37:2

For they wither quickly like grass
and wilt like tender green plants.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flowers fade
when the breath of the Lord blows on them;
indeed, the people are grass.

Ezra 10:6

Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night. He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

Whenever she went up to the Lord’s house, her rival taunted her in this way every year. Hannah wept and would not eat.

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his house stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

Job 6:4

Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me;
my spirit drinks their poison.
God’s terrors are arrayed against me.

Job 10:1

I am disgusted with my life.
I will express my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 33:20

so that he detests bread,
and his soul despises his favorite food.

Psalm 6:2-3

Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am weak;
heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking;

Psalm 42:6

I am deeply depressed;
therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan
and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart shudders within me;
terrors of death sweep over me.

Psalm 69:20

Insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.

Psalm 77:3

I think of God; I groan;
I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.Selah

Psalm 102:9

I eat ashes like bread
and mingle my drinks with tears

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthening shadow,
and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing me to the ground,
making me live in darkness
like those long dead.

Lamentations 3:13

ה HeHe pierced my kidneys
with His arrows.

Lamentations 3:20

I continually remember them
and have become depressed.

Matthew 26:37-38

Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

Acts 9:9

He was unable to see for three days and did not eat or drink.

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