Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
In Context
8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.
10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away.
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
Psalms 42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, [Who is] the help of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 43
Psalms 80:5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
Micah 1:10Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.
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 →