My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
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.
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.
My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
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.
My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.
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.
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.
I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. Selah.
The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.
And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.