⁴ My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread.

² For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither like the green herb.

⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.

⁶ Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and [when] he came there, he ate no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.

¹¹ My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

³ For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

⁴ Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

¹³ He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

²⁰ My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.

³⁷ He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

³⁸ Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."

⁹ He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,

³ I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

¹⁷ The elders of his house arose, [and stood] beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

¹ "My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²⁰ So that his life abhors bread, And his soul dainty food.

² Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

³ My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?

⁶ My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, The heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

⁴ My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

⁵ Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; For comforters, but I found none.

⁷ [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

⁸ Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?