Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, 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.

The Emphasized Bible

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

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 my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.


Cross References

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

Ezra 10:6

Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

1 Samuel 1:7-8

And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

2 Samuel 12:17

And the elders of his house arose, and went to him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

Job 10:1

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 33:20

So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

Psalm 6:2-3

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

Psalm 42:6

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Psalm 55:4-5

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Psalm 69:20

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Psalm 77:3

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 143:3-4

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

Lamentations 3:13

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

Lamentations 3:20

My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

Matthew 26:37-38

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

Acts 9:9

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

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