Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my 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,
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,
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 day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses. 9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears, 10 because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.
Cross References
Psalm 42:3
I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?"
Psalm 80:5
You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
Job 3:24
For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
Psalm 69:21
They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say, 'Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?'
Lamentations 3:15-16
He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.
Lamentations 3:48-49
Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
Micah 1:10
Don't spread the news in Gath! Don't shed even a single tear! In Beth Leaphrah sit in the dust!
Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; they will be terrified of you.