Verse 9

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot 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 made me drunk 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 pours out rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 My eye flows ceaselessly, without intermission,
  • Mic 1:10 : 10 Do not declare it at Gath, do not weep at all: in the house of Aphrah roll yourself in the dust.
  • Mic 7:17 : 17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth; they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of you.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They also gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.