You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.
O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
How long, O Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
“You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;
you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.