Psalm 102:9 - English Standard Version 2016

⁹ For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ For I have eaten the ashes [in which I sat] as if they were bread and have mingled my drink with weeping

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

Common English Bible

⁹ I’ve been eating ashes instead of bread. I’ve been mixing tears into my drinks

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ He will not be angry forever, and he will not threaten for eternity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ He will not always be angry: nor will he threaten for ever.

Psalm 102:9 Cross References

Job 3:24

For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

Psalm 42:11

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.

Psalm 80:5

You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.

Isaiah 44:20

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

Micah 1:10

Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-le-aphrah roll yourselves in the dust.

Micah 7:17

they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.