My heart is struck down like grass and has withered; I forget to eat my bread.
The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass.
For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.
When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night,[1] neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.
And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.
My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.
He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.
"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.