Psalm 102:9

New English Translation

For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

Cross References

Job 3:24

For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

Psalm 42:11

Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.

Psalm 42:3

I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 69:21

They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

Psalm 80:5

You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’

Micah 1:10

Don’t spread the news in Gath! Don’t shed even a single tear! In Beth Leaphrah sit in the dust!

Micah 7:17

They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; they will be terrified of you.