³ For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. ⁴ My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. ⁵ By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave 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 withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra arose from before the house of God, and went into 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 carried away.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

And as he did so 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 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 of which drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God 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 abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food.

Psalm 6:2-3

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

Psalm 42:6

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

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is severely pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach hath 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 declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Lamentations 3:13

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Lamentations 3:20

My soul hath 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 heavy.

Acts 9:9

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