Psalms 102:9
(102:10) For ashes do I eat like bread, and my drink I mingle with weeping;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
In Context
8(102:9) All the day my enemies reproach me: they that mock me swear by me.
Cross References
Job 3:24For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.
Psalms 42:11(42:12) Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within met? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet thank him, the salvation of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 80:5(80:6) Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Lamentations 3:15He hath sated me with bitter things, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Micah 1:10Tell it not at Gath, weep ye not loudly [there]: in Bethle'aphrah roll thyself 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 →