Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,
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- Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
- Ps 80:5 : 5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
- Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
- Lam 3:15-16 : 15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood. 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
- Lam 3:48-49 : 48 My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,
- Mic 1:10 : 10 Don't tell it in Gath, Don't weep at all. At Beth Ophrah{Beth Ophrah means literally "House of Dust."} I have rolled myself in the dust.
- Mic 7:17 : 17 They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, And will be afraid because of you.
- Ps 69:21 : 21 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
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14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.
- Ps 102:3-64 verses79%
3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.
4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.
- Ps 102:10-112 verses79%
10 Because of your indignation and your wrath, For you have taken me up, and thrown me away.
11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
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8 My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.
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19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
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3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
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24 For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
- Ps 69:9-113 verses74%
9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10 When I wept and I fasted, That was to my reproach.
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
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20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; For comforters, but I found none.
21 They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Lam 1:11-133 verses74%
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: Look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.
12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
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14 I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
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5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
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19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
- Ps 31:9-102 verses73%
9 Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
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7 My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
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3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
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3 I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
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6 Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."
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16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
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22 Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
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17 I didn't sit in the assembly of those who make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
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20 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
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14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
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7 My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my adversaries.
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24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
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11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
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20 My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,
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31 Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
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19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
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28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
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9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed on me with his teeth: My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
10 They have gaped on me with their mouth; They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.