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

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

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. {when...: or, from the time that she, etc: Heb. from her going up}

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

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

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.

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

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. {to take...: Heb. to lament with me}

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

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

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. {the hill...: or, the little hill}

My soul hath {them} still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. {humbled: Heb. bowed}

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

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.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}

He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. {arrows: Heb. sons}

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.

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.

So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. {dainty...: Heb. meat of desire}

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

For all flesh {is} as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: {For: or, For that}

Like a crane {or} a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail {with looking} upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me. {undertake...: or, ease me}

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

For I {am} poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.

And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the LORD, {that} the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.