Verse 5

You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

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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?
  • Isa 30:20 : 20 And though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers shall not be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers:
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping,
  • Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.