⁴ My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

² For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

⁷ The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

⁶ Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.

¹¹ My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

³ The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

⁴ Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

¹³ He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.

²⁰ My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.

³⁷ And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.

³⁸ Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.

⁹ And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.

⁹ I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

³ I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

¹⁷ And the chief men of his house got up and went to his side to make him get up from the earth, but he would not; and he would not take food with them.

⁴ For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

¹ My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

²⁰ He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

² Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.

³ My soul is in bitter trouble; and you, O Lord, how long?

⁶ My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

⁴ My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

⁵ Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

²⁰ My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

⁷ And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.

⁸ Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?