Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle 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,

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,

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 Mine enemies revile me all the day long; and they that are mad upon me are sworn together against me. 9 I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping, 10 and that because of thine indignation and wrath; for thou hast taken me up, and cast me down.

Cross References

Psalm 42:3

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

Psalm 80:5

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, yea thou hast given them plenteousness of tears to drink.

Job 3:24

For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.

Psalm 69:21

They gave me gall to eat, and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 44:20

The keeping of dust, and foolishness of heart hath turned them aside: so that none of them can have a free conscience to think, "Do not I err?"

Lamentations 3:15-16

He hath filled me with bitterness, and given me wormwood to drink.

Lamentations 3:48-49

Whole rivers of water gush out of mine eyes, for the great hurt of my people.

Micah 1:10

Weep not, lest they at Gath perceive it. Thou at Bethleaphrah, welter thyself in the dust and ashes.

Micah 7:17

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, as the worms of the earth, that tremble in their holes. They shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and they shall fear thee.

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