Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food.

New American Standard Bible

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

King James Version

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

Holman Bible

My heart is afflicted, withered like grass;
I even forget to eat my food.

International Standard Version

Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.

A Conservative Version

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

American Standard Version

My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.

Amplified


My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.

Darby Translation

My heart is smitten and withered like grass; yea, I have forgotten to eat my bread.

Julia Smith Translation

My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.

King James 2000

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

Modern King James verseion

My heart is stricken, and dried like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My heart is smitten down, and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

NET Bible

My heart is parched and withered like grass, for I am unable to eat food.

New Heart English Bible

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Webster

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

World English Bible

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

Youngs Literal Translation

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

3 For, consumed in smoke, are my days, And, my bones, like a burning mass, are scorched through; 4 Smitten like herbage, so is my heart dried up, For I have forgotten to eat my food. 5 At the noise of my groaning, my bone, hath cleaved, to my flesh:


Cross References

Psalm 37:2

For, like grass, soon shall they wither, and, like green herbage, shall they fade.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass hath withered The flower hath faded, Because, the breath of Yahweh, hath blown upon it! Surely the people is grass!

Ezra 10:6

Then arose Ezra from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, - and, when he came thither, bread, did he not eat, and, water, did he not drink, for he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of them of the Exile.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

And, thus, used she to do, year by year, whenever she went up to the house of Yahweh, thus, used she to vex her, - and she wept, and would not eat.

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house stood up over him, to raise him from the ground, - but he would not, neither would he eat food with them.

Job 6:4

For, the arrows of the Almighty, are in me, The heat whereof, my spirit is drinking up, The, terrors of GOD, array themselves against me.

Job 10:1

My soul doth loathe my life, - I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 33:20

So that his life maketh loathsome his food, and his soul, dainty meat;

Psalm 6:2-3

Show me favour, O Yahweh, for languishing am I: Heal me, O Yahweh, - for dismayed are my bones:

Psalm 42:6

My God! over myself, my soul is cast down, - For this cause, will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart, would writhe within me, And, the terrors of Death, have fallen upon me:

Psalm 69:20

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am weak, - Though I waited for one to pity me, yet there was none, And for comforters, yet I found not any.

Psalm 77:3

I remember God and I murmur, I muse, and my spirit swooneth. Selah.

Psalm 102:9

For, ashes - like bread, have I eaten, And, my drink - with my tears, have I mingled;

Psalm 102:11

My days, are like a shadow extended, And, I, as green herbage, do wither.

Lamentations 3:13

He hath caused to enter my reins, the sons of his quiver;

Lamentations 3:20

Thou wilt, indeed remember, that, bowed down concerning myself, is my soul;

Matthew 26:37-38

And, taking with him, Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be grieved and to be in great distress.

Acts 9:9

And he was three days without seeing, and did neither eat nor drink.

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