³ For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is stricken, and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones hold fast to my skin.

Phrases

Heart is Overwhelmed

Heart Is Sick

Cross References

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon wither like the grass; and fade as the green herb.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of Jehovah blows on it; surely the people is grass.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God and went into the room of Johanan the son of Eliashib. And he went there, and he ate no bread nor drank water. For he mourned because of the sin of those who had been exiled.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

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

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house rose up toward 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, their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.

Job 10:1

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

Job 33:20

so that his life is sick of bread, and his soul desirable food.

Psalm 6:2-3

Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am weak; O Jehovah, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 42:6

O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermons, from mount Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is pained within me; and the terrors of death have fallen on me.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to mourn with me, 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 fainted. Selah.

Psalm 102:9

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has beaten my life down to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, as those long dead.

Lamentations 3:13

He has caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my inward parts.

Lamentations 3:20

My soul vividly remembers and bows down on me.

Matthew 26:37-38

And He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with Him, and He began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

Acts 9:9

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