Psalms 102:9
Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
In Context
8Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.
10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast heaued me vp, and cast me downe.
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.
Psalms 42:11Why art thou cast downe, my soule? and why art thou disquieted within mee? waite on God: for I wil yet giue him thankes: he is my present helpe, and my God.
Psalms 80:5Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.
Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitternes, and made me drunken with wormewood.
Micah 1:10Declare ye it not at Gath, neither weepe ye: for the house of Aphrah roule thy selfe 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 →