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World English Bible

Psalms 102:9

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflictions;   Blessings-Afflictions;   Cup;   Suffering, Cup of;   Tears;   Trials;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ashes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Praise;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Tears;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ashes;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Pelican;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Ashes;  

Encyclopedias:

- Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ashes;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink
English Revised Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
Update Bible Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
New Century Version
I eat ashes for food, and my tears fall into my drinks.
New English Translation
For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
Webster's Bible Translation
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Amplified Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And have mingled my drink with tears
English Standard Version
For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y eet aschis as breed; and Y meddlide my drinke with weping.
Berean Standard Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
Contemporary English Version
Instead of food, I have ashes to eat and tears to drink,
American Standard Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
Bible in Basic English
I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
Complete Jewish Bible
My enemies taunt me all day long; mad with rage, they make my name a curse.
Darby Translation
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Easy-to-Read Version
My great sadness is my only food. My tears fall into my drink.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Mine enemies taunt me all the day; they that are mad against me do curse by me.
King James Version (1611)
For I haue eaten ashes like bread: and mingled my drinke with weeping.
New Life Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread and have mixed my drink with tears,
New Revised Standard
For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,
George Lamsa Translation
I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Good News Translation
Because of your anger and fury, ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away. <
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, ashes - like bread, have I eaten, And, my drink - with my tears, have I mingled;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(101-10) For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
Revised Standard Version
For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For I haue eaten asshes as it were bread, and mingled my drynke with weepyng,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;
Christian Standard Bible®
I eat ashes like breadand mingle my drinks with tears
Hebrew Names Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,
King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
Lexham English Bible
Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears
Literal Translation
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and have mixed my drink with weeping,
Young's Literal Translation
Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I eate ashes with my bred, and mengle my drynke with wepynge.
New American Standard Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with weeping
New King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For I have eaten ashes like bread And mingled my drink with weeping
Legacy Standard Bible
For I have eaten ashes like breadAnd mixed my drinks with weeping

Contextual Overview

1 <> Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you. 2 Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call. 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand. 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin. 6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. 7 I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop. 8 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse. 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears, 10 Because of your indignation and your wrath, For you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I Have: Psalms 69:21, Isaiah 44:20, Lamentations 3:15, Lamentations 3:16, Micah 1:10, Micah 7:17

mingled: Psalms 42:3, Psalms 80:5, Job 3:24, Lamentations 3:48, Lamentations 3:49

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:3 - the bread 1 Kings 22:27 - bread of affliction 2 Kings 20:3 - wept sore 2 Chronicles 18:26 - bread of affliction Job 6:7 - as my sorrowful meat Job 16:16 - face Psalms 55:2 - I mourn Psalms 69:10 - General Psalms 88:9 - Mine Psalms 102:4 - so that Psalms 110:7 - He shall Psalms 137:1 - we wept Ecclesiastes 4:1 - the tears Ecclesiastes 5:17 - he eateth Isaiah 30:20 - the bread Isaiah 38:3 - wept

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I have eaten ashes like bread,.... He sitting in ashes, as Job did, and rolling himself in them in the manner of mourners; and, having no other table than the ground to eat his food upon, he might eat ashes along with it; and by an hypallage of the words, the sense may be, that he ate bread like ashes, no more savoured and relished it, or was nourished by it, than if he had eaten ashes; the meaning is, that he was fed with the bread of adversity, and water of affliction:

and mingled my drink with weeping; that is, with tears; as he drank, the tears ran down his cheeks, and mixed with the liquor in his cup; he was fed with the bread of tears, and had them to drink in great measure; these were his meat and his drink, day and night, while enemies reproached him, swore at him, against him, and by him; see

Psalms 80:5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I have eaten ashes like bread - I have seated myself in ashes in my grief (compare Job 2:8; Job 42:6; Isaiah 58:5; Isaiah 61:3; Jonah 3:6; Daniel 9:3; Matthew 11:21); and ashes have become, as it were, my food. The ashes in which he sat had been mingled with his food.

And mingled my drink with weeping - Tears have fallen into the cup from which I drank, and have become a part of my drink. The idea is, that he had shed copious tears; and that even when he took his food, there was no respite to his grief.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 102:9. I have eaten ashes like bread — Fearful of what they might do, we all humbled ourselves before thee, and sought thy protection; well knowing that, unless we were supernaturally assisted, we must all have perished; our enemies having sworn our destruction.


 
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