³ For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand. ⁴ My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ For the voice of my groaning, my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh.

Phrases

Heart is Overwhelmed

Heart Is Sick

Cross References

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.

Isaiah 40:7

When the grass is withered, the flower falleth away. Even so is the people as grass, when the breath of the LORD bloweth upon them.

Ezra 10:6

And Ezra stood up before the house of God, and went in to the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib. And when he came thither, he ate no bread, nor drank water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been in captivity.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

And so did she year by year, as oft as she went up to the house of the LORD. And so chafed her: wherefore Hannah wept and ate not.

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house arose and went to him to take him up from the earth. But he would not, neither yet eat meat with them.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.

Job 10:1

It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,

Job 33:20

so that his life may away with no bread, and his soul abhorreth to eat any dainty meat:

Psalm 6:2-3

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

Psalm 42:6

My God, my soul is vexed within me; therefore I remember the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is heavy within me, and the fear of death is fallen upon me.

Psalm 69:20

Thy rebuke breaketh my heart, and maketh me heavy. I look for some to have pity upon me, but there is no man; and for some to comfort me, but I find none.

Psalm 77:3

When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah.

Psalm 102:9

I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping,

Psalm 102:11

My days are gone like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy persecuteth my soul; he smiteth my life down to the ground; he layeth me in the darkness, as the dead men of the world.

Lamentations 3:13

{He} The arrows of his quiver hath he shot, even into my reins.

Lamentations 3:20

Yea, thou shalt remember them, for my soul melteth away in me.

Matthew 26:37-38

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to wax sorrowful and to be in agony.

Acts 9:9

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