You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
- BSB You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- NKJV You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in great measure.
- NASB You have fed them with the bread of tears, And You have made them drink tears in large measure.
- NLT You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Isa 30:20Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;
- Ps 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
- Ps 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
- Job 6:7My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
- Ezek 4:16–17Moreover he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay;
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