Psalms 102:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears”
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BSBPD
“For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 102:9 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
- Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
- Psalms 69:21They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
- Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Isaiah 44:20He 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?”
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
- Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Micah 1:10Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.
- Micah 7:17They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
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