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Psalms 102:9
For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
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Psalms 38:8
I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
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Psalms 42:3-4
I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“ Where is your God?”I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.
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Psalms 80:5
You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
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Job 6:7
I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
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Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
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Lamentations 3:8
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
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Job 7:19
Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?
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Psalms 22:1-2
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
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Job 33:20
so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
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Psalms 32:3
When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.