³ For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. ⁴ My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.

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 the LORD blows upon it: surely the people are 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 did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

And as year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: 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 thereof drinks up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Job 10:1

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

Job 33:20

So that his life abhors bread, and his soul the choicest food.

Psalm 6:2-3

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 42:6

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is greatly pained within me: and the terrors of death are 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 remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was 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 darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Lamentations 3:13

He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my heart.

Lamentations 3:20

My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

Matthew 26:37-38

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

Acts 9:9

And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.