Psalm 80:5
You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Isaiah 30:20
Though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of oppression, yet your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will [constantly] see your Teacher.
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears
Job 6:7
“My soul refuses to touch them;
Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].
Ezekiel 4:16-17
Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold (listen carefully), I am going to break the staff of bread [that supports life] in Jerusalem; and they shall eat bread [rationed] by weight and [eat it] with anxiety and fear, and drink water by measure and [drink it] in horror [of the impending starvation],
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