Thematic Bible: Loss of appetite


Thematic Bible



So it happened year after year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, Peninnah provoked her; so she wept and would not eat.

But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants together with the woman urged him, and he [finally] listened to them. So he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.


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


They detested all kinds of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.



They detested all kinds of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.


So that his life makes him loathe food,
And his soul [loathe] even his favorite dishes.