Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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,

Holman Bible

I eat ashes like bread
and mingle my drinks with tears

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,

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 All the day mine enemies reproached me, they praising me aware against me. 9 For I ate ashes as bread, and I mingled my drink with weeping. 10 From the face of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou didst lift me up and thou wilt cast me down.

Cross References

Psalm 42:3

My tears were to me bread day and night, in saying to me all the days, Where is thy God?

Psalm 80:5

Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure.

Job 3:24

For my sighing will come before any bread, and my groanings shall be poured put as waters.

Psalm 69:21

And they will give my food poison, and for my thirst they will give me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 44:20

He fed upon ashes: a deceived heart turned him away, and he shall not deliver his soul, and he shall not say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Lamentations 3:15-16

He filled me with bitternesses, he gave me wormwood to drink

Lamentations 3:48-49

Mine eye will bring down streams of water for the breaking of the daughter of my people.

Micah 1:10

Ye shall not announce in Gath; weeping, ye shall not weep: in the house of dust roll thyself in dust

Micah 7:17

They shall lick the dust as the serpent, as crawlers of the earth they shall move out of their close places: for Jehovah our God they shall tremble and they shall fear from thee

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