My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.
And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept
For three days he was without sight, and he did not eat or drink anything.
He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. And while he sta
For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against
Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I foun
Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anyt
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
My heart pounds within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dea