Psalm 102:9 “For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears”

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

Bible in Basic English

I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

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Cross references

“I Have”

Psalm 69:21 Isaiah 44:20 Micah 1:10 Micah 7:17 Lamentations 3:15 Lamentations 3:16

Psalm 69:21 · BSB

They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

Isaiah 44:20 · BSB

He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

Micah 1:10 · BSB

Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

Micah 7:17 · BSB

They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

Lamentations 3:15 · BSB

He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:16 · BSB

He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

“mingled”

Psalm 42:3 Psalm 80:5 Job 3:24 Lamentations 3:48 Lamentations 3:49

Psalm 42:3 · BSB

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 80:5 · BSB

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Job 3:24 · BSB

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

Lamentations 3:48 · BSB

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:49 · BSB

My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.

10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.

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