Psalms 102:9 · KJV
“For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,”
— Psalms 102:9
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; {and} they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
Psalms 102 — Context
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; {and} they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
11My days {are} like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Cross References
Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where {is} thy God?
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}
Psalms 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalms 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Isaiah 44:20
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, {Is there} not a lie in my right hand?
Micah 7:17
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. {worms: or, creeping things}
Lamentations 3:15-16
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}
Lamentations 3:48-49
Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.