Psalm 102:9

Modern

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

Traditional

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Literal

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and my drink I have mingled with weeping,

Latin

…quia cinerem tamquam panem manducabam, et potum meum cum fletu miscebam,

Hebrew

English

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

A weak and suffering person prays for the Lord's mercy on Jerusalem and for his presence with its people.

Theme notes and profiles

Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 80:5
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
Isaiah 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?”
Job 3:24
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
Psalm 69:21
They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
Lamentations 3:15–16
He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
Lamentations 3:48–49
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Micah 1:10
Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.