My heart is stricken and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.
And the elders of his house rose up toward him, to raise him up from the earth. But he was not willing; and he ate no bread with them.
And Ezra rose up from before the house of God and went into the room of Johanan the son of Eliashib. And he went there, and he did not eat food, nor did he drink, for he mourned for the perfidy of the exiles.
My soul loathes my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
My skin is blackened on me, and my bones are burned with heat.
so that his life loathes bread, and his soul desirable food.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; their fury is drinking my spirit; the terrors of God are set against me.
My days are like a shadow stretched out, and I wither like grass.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and have mingled my drink with weeping,
for they soon wither like grass and fade like the green herb.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me; on account of this I remember You from Jordan-land and from the Hermons, from Mount Mizar.
Reproach has broken My heart, and I am sick; and I waited for one to show pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
I remember God and am troubled; I meditate and my spirit faints. Selah.
The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Jehovah blows on it. Surely the people is grass.
He caused the sons of His quiver to enter into my kidneys.
Remembering,my soul remembers and bows down on me.
And he was three days not seeing, and did not eat or drink.