Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Holman Bible
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,
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,
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,
Themes
Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » From God
Anger of God » Against » Sin, in saints
Cup » Cup of suffering, saints drink of
cup of Suffering » Saints drink of
Tears » Of solicitude over sinners » Of disappointment and grief
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 102:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Affliction In Light Of Eternity
8 All the day my enemies reproach me; those who mock me swear [oaths] against me. 9 Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears 10 because of your indignation and anger, for you have picked me up and thrown me away.
Cross References
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night, while [they] say to me all day [long], "Where [is] your God?"
Psalm 80:5
You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.
Job 3:24
For my sighing comes {before} my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water
Psalm 69:21
They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Isaiah 44:20
[He] feeds [on] ashes; a {deceived mind} misleads him. And he cannot save {himself}, and he cannot say, "Is [this] not an illusion in my right hand?"
Lamentations 3:15-16
He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me [with] wormwood.
Lamentations 3:48-49
Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Micah 1:10
Do not tell [it] in Gath; you must not weep at all. In Beth-le-Aphrah roll yourself [in] dust.
Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth. They will come trembling from their strongholds to Yahweh our God. Let them fear and be afraid of you.