Verse 9

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

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:3 : 3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes; his deceived mind misleads him. He cannot rescue himself, nor does he say,‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’
  • Lam 3:15-16 : 15 He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness. 16 ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed. 49 ע(Ayin) Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no break
  • Mic 1:10 : 10 Don’t spread the news in Gath! Don’t shed even a single tear! In Beth Leaphrah roll about in mourning in the dust!
  • Mic 7:17 : 17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the LORD our God; they will be terrified of you.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 They put bitter poison into my food, and to quench my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.