Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
In Context
8My enemies reproach me all the day. Those who are mad against me do curse by me.
10because of thine indignation and thy wrath. For thou have taken me up, and cast me away.
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
Psalms 42:11Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 80:5Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
Micah 1:10Tell it not in Gath. Weep not at all. I have rolled myself in the dust at Beth-le-aphrah.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 102:2-12
Complaints in Affliction. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord , and let my cry come unto thee. 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily. 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7 I… Read the whole commentary →