תהלים 102:9

Hebrew Modern Translation

כי אפר כלחם אכלתי ושקוי בבכי מסכתי׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
[102:10] כלחם אכלתי ושקוי בבכי מסכתי

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
[102:10] כִּי־אֵ֭פֶר כַּלֶּ֣חֶם אָכָ֑לְתִּי וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י בִּבְכִ֥י מָסָֽכְתִּי ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
[102:10] כִּי־אֵפֶר כַּלֶּחֶם אָכָלְתִּי וְשִׁקֻּוַי בִּבְכִי מָסָֽכְתִּי ׃

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.