Psalms 102:9

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 am awake in the night, like a bird that sits alone on the roof. 8All day my enemies insult me. They laugh at me and they use my name as a curse. Because you are so angry with me, I eat ashes as my food. My tears drop into the water that I drink. It seems that you have picked me up, and then you have thrown me away. 11My days are disappearing, like a shadow in the evening. Like dry grass, I will soon die.

Psalms 102:9 word by word

כִּי־אֵ֭פֶר כַּלֶּ֣חֶם אָכָ֑לְתִּי וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י בִּבְכִ֥י מָסָֽכְתִּי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For I have eatenאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• ashesאֵ֫פֶר'êpher · ashesH665
• like breadלֶ֫חֶםlechem · food: breadH3899
• and mingledמָסַךְmâsak · to mixH4537
• my drinkשִׁקֻּוshiqqûv · drinkH8249
• with weepingבְּכִיbekîy · weepingH1065

Cross-references for Psalms 102:9

• Psalms 69:21Instead, my enemies put poison in my food. When I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Isaiah 44:20Someone like that is stupid enough to eat ashes. His mind has deceived him. He cannot save himself from his lies. He will not say to himself, ‘This thing that I hold in my right hand is completely false!’
• Lamentations 3:15God has caused my life to become a thing of pain. It is as if he filled a cup with a very bitter drink for me.
• Micah 1:10Do not talk about this in the city of Gath. Do not even weep there. But you people at Beth-Leaphrah, roll on the ground to show how sad you are.
• Micah 7:17They will be like snakes that move along the ground. They will be afraid and they will eat dust like snakes. They will come carefully out of their safe places, because they are afraid of you, the Lord our God.
• Psalms 42:3All day and all night I weep. My tears are my only food! My enemies say to me all the time, ‘Where is your God?’
• Psalms 80:5You have caused us to eat tears as our food. Buckets full of tears is what we drink.
• Job 3:24I am crying instead of eating. My tears pour out like a river of water.
• Lamentations 3:48I weep, and my eyes are red with all my tears. It is because the enemy has killed 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

Topics related to Psalms 102:9

• Afflictions and Adversities

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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