Psalms 102:9
For ashes have been my bread, and tears have been mixed with my cup.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
In Context
8All the day wild foes revile me, using my name for a curse.
10Because of your passionate anger, you did raise me, then hurl me to the ground.
Cross References
Psalms 42:11Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
Psalms 80:5You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.
Micah 1:10Don’t tell this in Gath! Don’t even cry – but sit in the dust at 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 →