Psalm 102:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass;
I am too wasted to eat my bread.(A)
Psalm 37:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 for they will soon fade like the grass
and wither like the green herb.(A)
Isaiah 40:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 The grass withers; the flower fades,
[[when the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
surely the people are grass.(A)
Psalm 77:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 I think of God, and I moan;
I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah(A)
Ezra 10:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Foreign Wives and Their Children Rejected
6 Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night.[a] He did not eat bread or drink water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 10.6 1 Esdras 9.2: Heb where he went
Acts 9:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 For three days he was without sight and neither ate nor drank.
Read full chapter
Matthew 26:37-38
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be grieved and agitated.(A) 38 Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay awake with me.”(B)
Read full chapter
Lamentations 3:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 My soul continually thinks of it
and is bowed down within me.(A)
Lamentations 3:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 He shot into my vitals
the arrows of his quiver;
Psalm 143:3-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing my life to the ground,
making me sit in darkness like those long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit faints within me;
my heart within me is appalled.(A)
Psalm 102:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 My days are like a lengthening shadow;
I wither away like grass.(A)
Psalm 102:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
and mingle tears with my drink,(A)
Psalm 69:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 Insults 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.(A)
Psalm 55:4-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 My heart is in anguish within me;
the terrors of death have fallen upon me.(A)
5 Fear and trembling come upon me,
and horror overwhelms me.(B)
Psalm 42:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 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.
Psalm 6:2-3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
O Lord, heal me, for my bones are shaking with terror.(A)
3 My soul also is struck with terror,
while you, O Lord—how long?(B)
Job 33:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 so that their lives loathe bread
and their appetites dainty food.(A)
Job 10:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Job: I Loathe My Life
10 “I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.(A)
Job 6:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 For the arrows of the Almighty[a] are in me;
my spirit drinks their poison;
the terrors of God are arrayed against me.(A)
Footnotes
- 6.4 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
2 Samuel 12:17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
17 The elders of his house stood beside him urging him to rise from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
Read full chapter
1 Samuel 1:7-8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 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. 8 Her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? Why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”(A)
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.