Psalm 102:9 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

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

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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.

Psalm 102:9 Cross References

Job 3:24

For my sighing comes like 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 disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar 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 mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

Micah 1:10

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

Micah 7:17

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