Parallel Verses

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,

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 have reproached me all day long;
Those who deride me have used my name as a curse.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread
And mingled my drink with weeping
10 Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have lifted me up and cast 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 with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

Job 3:24

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.

Psalm 69:21

They also gave me gall for my food
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Lamentations 3:15-16

He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:48-49

My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Micah 1:10

Tell it not in Gath,
Weep not at all.
At Beth-le-aphrah roll yourself in the dust.

Micah 7:17

They will lick the dust like a serpent,
Like reptiles of the earth.
They will come trembling out of their fortresses;
To the Lord our God they will come in dread
And they will be afraid before You.

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