Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

New American Standard Bible

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

King James Version

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

Holman Bible

My heart is afflicted, withered like grass;
I even forget to eat my food.

International Standard Version

Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.

A Conservative Version

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

American Standard Version

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

Amplified


My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.

Darby Translation

My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.

Julia Smith Translation

My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.

King James 2000

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

Modern King James verseion

My heart is stricken, and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

NET Bible

My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

New Heart English Bible

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

The Emphasized Bible

Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food.

Webster

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

World English Bible

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

3 For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned. 4 Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread. 5 From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.

Cross References

Psalm 37:2

For as grass speedily they are cut off, And as the greenness of the tender grass do fade.

Isaiah 40:7

Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people is grass;

Ezra 10:6

And Ezra riseth from before the house of God, and goeth unto the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib; yea, he goeth there, bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk, for he is mourning because of the trespass of the removal.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

And so he doth year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of Jehovah, so it provoketh her, and she weepeth, and doth not eat.

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house rise against him, to raise him up from the earth, and he hath not been willing, nor hath he eaten with them bread;

Job 6:4

For arrows of the Mighty are with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves for me!

Job 10:1

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 33:20

And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food.

Psalm 6:2-3

Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

Psalm 42:6

In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am sick, And I look for a bemoaner, and there is none, And for comforters, and I have found none.

Psalm 77:3

I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah.

Psalm 102:9

Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

Psalm 102:11

My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

Psalm 143:3-4

For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

Lamentations 3:13

He hath caused to enter into my reins The sons of His quiver.

Lamentations 3:20

Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.

Matthew 26:37-38

And having taken Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful, and to be very heavy;

Acts 9:9

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

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