Psalm 102:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

Cross References

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 80:5

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

Micah 7:17

they shall lick dust like a snake, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their fortresses; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall stand in fear of you.

Micah 1:10

Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-leaphrah roll yourselves in the dust.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Job 3:24

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

Psalm 42:11

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.