Berean Standard Bible
Psalms 102:9
9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
Psalms 102:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- New International Version (NIV)For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
- English Standard Version (ESV)For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
- New King James Version (NKJV)For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
Context of Psalms 102:9
7I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop. 8All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me. For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears 10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside. 11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
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כִּי־אֵ֭פֶר כַּלֶּ֣חֶם אָכָ֑לְתִּי וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י בִּבְכִ֥י מָסָֽכְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 102:9
- Psalms 69:21They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.
- 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.
- 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 come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
- Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
- Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Commentaries on Psalms 102:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9I 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9For 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-28A weak and suffering person prays for the Lord's mercy on Jerusalem and for his presence with its people.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. ashes--a figure of grief, my bread; weeping or tears, my drink (Psa 80:5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 102
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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