My heart is like grass that has been cut and dried. I forget to eat.
The elders of David’s family came to him and tried to pull him up from the ground, but he refused to get up or to eat food with them.
Then Ezra left the Temple and went to the room of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. While Ezra was there, he did not eat or drink, because he was still sad about the unfaithfulness of the captives who had returned.
“I hate my life, so I will complain without holding back; I will speak because I am so unhappy.
My skin has become black and peels off, as my body burns with fever.
They may be in such pain that they even hate food, even the very best meal.
The arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks in their poison; God’s terrors are gathered against me.
My days are like a passing shadow; I am like dried grass.
I eat ashes for food, and my tears fall into my drinks.
because like the grass, they will soon dry up. Like green plants, they will soon die away.
my God. I am very sad. So I remember you where the Jordan River begins, near the peaks of Hermon and Mount Mizar.
Insults have broken my heart and left me weak. I looked for sympathy, but there was none; I found no one to comfort me.
When I remember God, I become upset; when I think, I become afraid.Selah
The grass dies and the flowers fall when the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass.
He shot me in the kidneys with the arrows from his bag.
Please remember me and think about me.
For three days Saul could not see and did not eat or drink.