Psalms 102:10
\102:9\I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
In Context
11\102:10\Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:7The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
Psalms 30:6\30:5\For his wrath is only for a minute; in his grace there is life; weeping may be for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalms 38:18\38:17\My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.
Psalms 42:4\42:3\My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
Psalms 90:7We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
Lamentations 1:18The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.
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 →