Verse 5

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
  • Isa 30:20 : 20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won't be hidden anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers;
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
  • 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 fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay: 17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.