Psalms 102:9

King James Version 1611 (Original)

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Lam 3:15-16 : 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
  • Mic 1:10 : 10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
  • Mic 7:17 : 17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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    14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

    15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

    16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

    17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

  • Ps 102:3-6
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    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

    4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

    5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

    6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

  • Ps 102:10-11
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    10Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

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    8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

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    19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

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    3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

  • Job 3:24
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    24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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    9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

    10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

    11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

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    15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

    16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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    20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

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    11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

    12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

    13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

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    14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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    5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

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    19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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    9Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

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    7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

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    4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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    3I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

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    20Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

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    14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

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    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

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    20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

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    31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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    28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

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