Psalm 102:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,

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.

Psalm 102:9 Cross References

Job 3:24

For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings pour out like water.

Psalm 42:11

Why are you depressed, O my being? And why are you restless within me? Wait for Elohim: for I shall yet thank Him, the deliverance of my face, And my Elohim.

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day, “Where is your Elohim?”

Psalm 69:21

And they gave me gall for my food, And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 80:5

You have caused them to eat the bread of tears, And have caused them to drink With tears, a third time.

Isaiah 44:20

Feeding on ashes, a deceived heart turns him aside, and he does not deliver his being, nor says, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Micah 1:10

Do not declare it in Gath, weep not at all in Bĕ

Micah 7:17

Let them lick the dust like a serpent, let them come trembling from their strongholds like snakes of the earth, let them be afraid of יהוה  our Elohim and fear because of You.