English Standard Version
Psalms 102:9
9For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
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
- New King James Version (NKJV)For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
- New Living Translation (NLT)I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink
Context of Psalms 102:9
7I lie awake; I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop. 8All the day my enemies taunt me; those who deride me use my name for a curse. For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink, 10because of your indignation and anger; for you have taken me up and thrown me down. 11My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
Read all of Psalms 102Psalms 102:9 word by word
כִּי־אֵ֭פֶר כַּלֶּ֣חֶם אָכָ֑לְתִּי וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י בִּבְכִ֥י מָסָֽכְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 102:9
- Psalms 69:21They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
- Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is there not a lie in my right hand?"
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood.
- Micah 1:10Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-le-aphrah roll yourselves in the dust.
- Micah 7:17they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
- Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"
- Psalms 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
- Job 3:24For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
- Lamentations 3:48my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of 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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