New English Translation
Psalms 102:9
9For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my 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 stay awake; I am like a solitary bird on a roof. 8All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses. For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears, 10because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away. 11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
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כִּי־אֵ֭פֶר כַּלֶּ֣חֶם אָכָ֑לְתִּי וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י בִּבְכִ֥י מָסָֽכְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 102:9
- Psalms 69:21They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
- Isaiah 44:20He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
- Lamentations 3:15He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. ו (Vav)
- Micah 1:10Don’t spread the news in Gath! Don’t shed even a single tear! In Beth Leaphrah sit in the dust!
- Micah 7:17They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; they will be terrified of you.
- Psalms 42:3I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 80:5You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
- Job 3:24For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
- Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. ע (Ayin)
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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