Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
In Context
8All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.
10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
Cross References
Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
Psalms 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Micah 1:10Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.
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 →