Thematic Bible: Of disappointment and grief


Thematic Bible



You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.


I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"