Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears New Living Translation I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink English Standard Version For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink, Berean Standard Bible For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears King James Bible For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, New King James Version For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping, New American Standard Bible For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with weeping NASB 1995 For I have eaten ashes like bread And mingled my drink with weeping NASB 1977 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping, Legacy Standard Bible For I have eaten ashes like bread And mixed my drinks with weeping Amplified Bible For I have eaten ashes like bread, And have mingled my drink with tears Christian Standard Bible I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drinks with tears Holman Christian Standard Bible I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drinks with tears American Standard Version For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping, Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because I have eaten ashes like bread and I have mixed my drink with weeping Brenton Septuagint Translation For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping; Contemporary English Version Instead of food, I have ashes to eat and tears to drink, Douay-Rheims Bible For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. English Revised Version For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. GOD'S WORD® Translation I eat ashes like bread and my tears are mixed with my drink International Standard Version I have eaten ashes as food and mixed my drink with tears JPS Tanakh 1917 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping, Literal Standard Version Because I have eaten ashes as bread, | And have mingled my drink with weeping, Majority Standard Bible For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears New American Bible I eat ashes like bread, mingle my drink with tears. NET Bible For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears, New Revised Standard Version For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink, New Heart English Bible For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears, Webster's Bible Translation For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, World English Bible For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears, Young's Literal Translation Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Prayer of the Afflicted…8All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me. 9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears 10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.… Cross References Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, "Where is your God?" Psalm 80:5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears. Isaiah 44:20 He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?" Treasury of Scripture For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. I Have Psalm 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. Isaiah 44:20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? Lamentations 3:15,16 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood… mingled Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? Psalm 80:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. Job 3:24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. Jump to Previous Ashes Bread Drink Dust Eat Eaten Food Mingle Mingled Mixed Tears WeepingJump to Next Ashes Bread Drink Dust Eat Eaten Food Mingle Mingled Mixed Tears WeepingPsalm 102 1. The prophet in his prayer makes a grievous complaint.12. He takes comfort in the eternity, and mercy of God 18. The mercies of God are to be recorded 23. He sustains his weakness by the unchangeableness of God. (9) Ashes like bread.--Lamentations 3:16. A figurative expression, like "dust shall be the serpent's meat" (Isaiah 65:25; comp. Genesis 3:14). With the last clause comp. Psalm 42:3, "tears have been my meat day and night." So too, as an emblem of disappointment, a modern poet:-- "But even while I drank the brook, and ate The goodly apples, all these things at once Fell into dust, and I was left alone." . . . Verse 9. - For I have eaten ashes like bread; i.e. "the 'ashes' of humiliation have been my food. I have, as it were, fed on them." A literal mingling of ashes with his food is not to be thought cf. And mingled my drink with weeping (comp. Psalm 42:3; Psalm 80:5).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Forכִּי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction I have eaten אָכָ֑לְתִּי (’ā·ḵā·lə·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 398: To eat ashes אֵ֭פֶר (’ê·p̄er) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 665: Ashes like bread כַּלֶּ֣חֶם (kal·le·ḥem) Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain and mixed מָסָֽכְתִּי׃ (mā·sā·ḵə·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's 4537: To mix, produce by mixing my drink וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י (wə·šiq·qu·way) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular Strong's 8249: A draught with tears, בִּבְכִ֥י (biḇ·ḵî) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1065: A weeping, a dripping Links Psalm 102:9 NIVPsalm 102:9 NLT Psalm 102:9 ESV Psalm 102:9 NASB Psalm 102:9 KJV Psalm 102:9 BibleApps.com Psalm 102:9 Biblia Paralela Psalm 102:9 Chinese Bible Psalm 102:9 French Bible Psalm 102:9 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread (Psalm Ps Psa.) |