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, 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.
And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.”
My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.
He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead. Therefore my spirit faints within me; my heart within me is appalled.
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.
My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me. Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
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.
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled. My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long?
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.
So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat. And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”
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