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Psalms 102:9
9For I eat ashes as my food and mingle 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,
- 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,
- 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 have become like a bird alone on a roof. 8All day long my enemies taunt me; those who rail against me use my name as a curse. For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears 10because of your great wrath, for you have taken me up and thrown me aside. 11My days are like the 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 put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.
- Isaiah 44:20Such a person feeds on ashes; a deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
- Lamentations 3:15He has filled me with bitter herbs and given me gall to drink.
- Micah 1:10Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all. In Beth Ophrah roll in the dust.
- Micah 7:17They will lick dust like a snake, like creatures that crawl on the ground. They will come trembling out of their dens; they will turn in fear to the Lord our God and will be afraid of you.
- Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
- Job 3:24For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.
- Lamentations 3:48Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
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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