Psalms 102:9
For I eat ashes like bread, And mingle my drink with tears.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
In Context
8All the day long my enemies reproach me; They who rage against me curse by me.
10On account of thine indignation and thy wrath; For thou hast lifted me up and cast me down!
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groans 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, Him, my deliverer and my God!
Psalms 80:5For thou causest them to eat the bread of tears, And givest them tears to drink, in full measure.
Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness; he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
Micah 1:10Tell it not in Gath! weep not in Acco! In Beth-Aprah roll yourselves 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 →