Psalm 102:9

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Psalm 42:3

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

Psalm 80:5

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

Micah 7:17

They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their strongholds and close places. They shall turn and come with fear and dread to the Lord our God and shall be afraid and stand in awe because of You [O Lord]. [Jer. 33:9.]

Micah 1:10

In Gath [a city in Philistia] announce it not; in Acco weep not at all, [betraying your grief to foreigners; but among your own people] in Beth-le-aphrah [house of dust] roll yourself in the dust.

Isaiah 44:20

That kind of man feeds on ashes [and finds his satisfaction in ashes]! A deluded mind has led him astray, so that he cannot release and save himself, or ask, Is not [this thing I am holding] in my right hand a lie?

Psalm 69:21

They gave me also gall [poisonous and bitter] for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar (a soured wine) to drink. [Matt. 27:34, 48.]

Job 3:24

For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings are poured out like water.

Psalm 42:11

Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.