My heart is stricken and withered like grass, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.
So the elders of his house stood up over him, to raise him up from the earth. But he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
Then Ezra rose up from before the House of Elohim, and went into the room of Yehoḥ
“My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.
My skin became black upon me, and my bones burned with heat.
so that his life loathes bread, and his being desirable food.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, my spirit drinks in their poison, the onslaughts of Eloah are arrayed against me.
My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,
For they soon wither like grass, And fade like green plants.
O my Elohim, my being is depressed within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Yardĕ
Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
I remembered Elohim, and groaned; I complained, and my spirit grew faint. Selah.
“Grass shall wither, the flower shall fade, when the Spirit of יהוה has blown on it! Truly the people is grass!
He made the arrows of His quiver pierce my kidneys.
Your being indeed remembers And bows down upon me.
And he was three days without sight, and did not eat nor drink.