Psalm 102:9
New International Version
For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears

New Living Translation
I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink

English Standard Version
For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

Berean Standard Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

King James Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

New King James Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

New American Standard Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with weeping

NASB 1995
For I have eaten ashes like bread And mingled my drink with weeping

NASB 1977
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

Legacy Standard Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread And mixed my drinks with weeping

Amplified Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And have mingled my drink with tears

Christian Standard Bible
I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drinks with tears

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I eat ashes like bread and mingle my drinks with tears

American Standard Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because I have eaten ashes like bread and I have mixed my drink with weeping

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping;

Contemporary English Version
Instead of food, I have ashes to eat and tears to drink,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

English Revised Version
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I eat ashes like bread and my tears are mixed with my drink

International Standard Version
I have eaten ashes as food and mixed my drink with tears

JPS Tanakh 1917
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

Literal Standard Version
Because I have eaten ashes as bread, | And have mingled my drink with weeping,

Majority Standard Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

New American Bible
I eat ashes like bread, mingle my drink with tears.

NET Bible
For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

New Revised Standard Version
For I eat ashes like bread, and mingle tears with my drink,

New Heart English Bible
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Webster's Bible Translation
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,

Young's Literal Translation
Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Prayer of the Afflicted
8All day long my enemies taunt me; they ridicule me and curse me. 9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears 10because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and cast me aside.…

Cross References
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, "Where is your God?"

Psalm 80:5
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, "Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?"


Treasury of Scripture

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

I Have

Psalm 69:21
They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 44:20
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Lamentations 3:15,16
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood…

mingled

Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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Psalm 102
1. The prophet in his prayer makes a grievous complaint.
12. He takes comfort in the eternity, and mercy of God
18. The mercies of God are to be recorded
23. He sustains his weakness by the unchangeableness of God.














(9) Ashes like bread.--Lamentations 3:16. A figurative expression, like "dust shall be the serpent's meat" (Isaiah 65:25; comp. Genesis 3:14). With the last clause comp. Psalm 42:3, "tears have been my meat day and night." So too, as an emblem of disappointment, a modern poet:--

"But even while I drank the brook, and ate

The goodly apples, all these things at once

Fell into dust, and I was left alone." . . .

Verse 9. - For I have eaten ashes like bread; i.e. "the 'ashes' of humiliation have been my food. I have, as it were, fed on them." A literal mingling of ashes with his food is not to be thought cf. And mingled my drink with weeping (comp. Psalm 42:3; Psalm 80:5).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I have eaten
אָכָ֑לְתִּי (’ā·ḵā·lə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 398: To eat

ashes
אֵ֭פֶר (’ê·p̄er)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 665: Ashes

like bread
כַּלֶּ֣חֶם (kal·le·ḥem)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

and mixed
מָסָֽכְתִּי׃ (mā·sā·ḵə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 4537: To mix, produce by mixing

my drink
וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י (wə·šiq·qu·way)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8249: A draught

with tears,
בִּבְכִ֥י (biḇ·ḵî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1065: A weeping, a dripping


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