Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

I eat ashes like bread
and mingle my drinks with tears

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

I have eaten ashes as food and mixed my drink with tears

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

For I ate ashes as bread, and I mingled my drink with weeping.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping,

NET Bible

For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

New Heart English Bible

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

The Emphasized Bible

For, ashes - like bread, have I eaten, And, my drink - with my tears, have I mingled;

Webster

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

World English Bible

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Youngs Literal Translation

Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Affliction In Light Of Eternity

8 My enemies taunt me all day long;
they ridicule and curse me.
9 I eat ashes like bread
and mingle my drinks with tears
10 because of Your indignation and wrath;
for You have picked me up and thrown me aside.


Cross References

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
“Where is your God?”

Psalm 80:5

You fed them the bread of tears
and gave them a full measure
of tears to drink.

Job 3:24

I sigh when food is put before me,
and my groans pour out like water.

Psalm 69:21

Instead, they gave me gall for my food,
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes.
His deceived mind has led him astray,
and he cannot deliver himself,
or say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Lamentations 3:15-16

He filled me with bitterness,
satiated me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:48-49

My eyes flow with streams of tears
because of the destruction of my dear people.

Micah 1:10

Don’t announce it in Gath,
don’t weep at all.
Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

Micah 7:17

They will lick the dust like a snake;
they will come trembling out of their hiding places
like reptiles slithering on the ground.
They will tremble in the presence of Yahweh our God;
they will stand in awe of You.

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