Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
In Context
8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
10Because of yours indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Psalms 42:11Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope you in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 80:5You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
Micah 1:10Declare all of you it not at Gath, weep all of you not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll yourself 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 →