For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
Parallel translations
- KJV For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
- BSB For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
- NKJV For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
- NASB For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with weeping
- NLT I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
- Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
- Ps 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
- Lam 3:48–49My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Mic 7:17They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
- Mic 1:10Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
- Ps 69:21They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
- Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”
- Lam 3:15–16He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
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