Psalm 102:4

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

³ for my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth. ⁴ My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ Because of the sound of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.

Heart is Overwhelmed

Heart Is Sick

Psalm 37:2

For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.

Isaiah 40:7

Grass withers; [the] flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people [are] grass.

Ezra 10:6

Ezra rose from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. He did not eat food nor drink water because he was mourning over the sin of the exiles.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

And so he used to do year after year; {whenever} she went up to the house of Yahweh, she would provoke her so that she would weep and would not eat.

2 Samuel 12:17

The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he [was] not willing, and he did not eat [any] food with them.

Job 6:4

for the arrows of Shaddai [are] in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 10:1

"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self.

Job 33:20

{so that} his life loathes bread, and his inner self [loathes] {appetizing food}.

Psalm 6:2-3

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I am feeble. Heal me, O Yahweh, for my bones are terrified.

Psalm 42:6

O my God, within me my soul is {in despair}; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart trembles within me, and deathly terrors fall on me.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 77:3

I remember God and I groan loudly; I meditate and my spirit grows faint.

Psalm 102:9

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears

Psalm 102:11

My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither 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 dwell in dark places like [those] long dead.

Lamentations 3:13

He shot {the arrows of his quiver} into my kidneys.

Lamentations 3:20

Surely my soul remembers and bows down within me.

Matthew 26:37-38

And taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be distressed and troubled.

Acts 9:9

And he was {unable to see} [for] three days, and he did not eat or drink.