My heart is afflicted, withered like grass; I even forget to eat my food.
The elders of his house stood beside him to get him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night. He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.
I am disgusted with my life. I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
My skin blackens and flakes off, and my bones burn with fever.
so that he detests bread, and his soul despises his favorite food.
Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison. God’s terrors are arrayed against me.
My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass.
I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drinks with tears
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender green plants.
I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I waited for sympathy, but there was none; for comforters, but found no one.
I think of God; I groan; I meditate; my spirit becomes weak. Selah
The grass withers, the flowers fade when the breath of the Lord blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
I continually remember them and have become depressed.
He was unable to see for three days and did not eat or drink.