Verse 5

You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

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?”
• Isa 30:20 : 20 The Lord will give you distress to eat and suffering to drink; but your teachers will no longer be hidden; your eyes will see them.
• Ps 102:9 : 9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
• Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Then he said to me,“Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror 17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
• Job 6:7 : 7 I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.