And He has broken my teeth with gravel, He has covered me with ashes.
Bread gained by deceit might be sweet to a man, But afterward his mouth is filled with gravel.
O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation because suddenly the ravager shall come upon us.
O Elohim, break their teeth in their mouth! Break out the fangs of the young lions, O יהוה!
Arise, O יהוה ; Save me, O my Elohim! Because You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek; You have broken the teeth of the wrong.
“And what father among you whose son asks for bread shall give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish shall give him a snake instead of a fish,
“Or is there a man among you who, if his son asks for bread, shall give him a stone?
And the word reached the sovereign of Ninewĕ
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, but the teeth of the young lions shall be broken.
And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes.