Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
In Context
8My enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are enraged against me are sworn against me.
10Because of thy 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 roarings are poured out like the waters.
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, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 80:5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Lamentations 3:15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Micah 1:10Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of 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 →