You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers:
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
How long, LORD? will you be angry for ever? shall your jealousy burn like fire?
You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.