Verse 9

Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where `is' thy God?'
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'
  • Lam 3:15-16 : 15 He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood. 16 And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.
  • Lam 3:48-49 : 48 Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49 Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission,
  • Mic 1:10 : 10 In Gath tell ye not -- in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dust roll thyself.
  • Mic 7:17 : 17 They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, They tremble from their enclosures, Of Jehovah our God they are afraid, Yea, they are afraid of Thee.
  • Ps 69:21 : 21 And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters `are' my roarings.