Psalms 102:9
7 I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
8 All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me.
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
10 because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.
11 My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
- KJV
- For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- WEB
- For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
- ASV
- For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
- DARBY
- For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- BLB
- For I have eaten ashes like bread, and my drink I have mingled with weeping,
- ÅB
- For jeg spiser aske som brød og blander min drikk med gråt
- OTB
- For jeg har spist aske som om det var brød,
Og blandet min drikk med tårer - B1930
- For jeg eter aske som brød og blander min drikk med gråt
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Read in contextJob 3:24
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
Read in contextIsaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
Read in contextPsalms 80:5
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
Read in contextLamentations 3:48–49
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Read in contextMicah 1:10
Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.
Read in contextPsalms 69:21
They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
Read in contextLamentations 3:15–16
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
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