Verse 5

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
• Isa 30:20 : 20 And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:
• Ps 102:9 : 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
• Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder: 17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.
• Job 6:7 : 7 My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.