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 All day long my enemies have reproached me. Those who deride me used my name as a curse. 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread
And mingled my drink with weeping
10 This is because of your indignation and your anger. 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 made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.

Job 3:24

Sighing comes to me instead of food. My groans pour out like water.

Psalm 69:21

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

Isaiah 44:20

They eat ashes because they are deceived. Their own misguided minds lead them astray. They cannot rescue themselves or ask themselves: Is what I hold in my right hand a false god?

Lamentations 3:15-16

He has made my life nothing but pain. He gives me bitterness in full measure.

Lamentations 3:48-49

Rivers of water run down from my eyes because pf the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Micah 1:10

Do not announce it at Gath, Philistia. Do not weep or show grief. At the house of Ophrah (house of dust) roll in the dust!

Micah 7:17

They will lick up the dust like a serpent. They will come trembling out of their hole like crawling things of the earth. They will approach Jehovah our God with fear and be afraid because of you.

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