Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

General references

Bible References

I have

Psalm 69:21
They also gave me gall for my food
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver himself, nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.
Micah 1:10
Tell it not in Gath,
Weep not at all.
At Beth-le-aphrah roll yourself in the dust.
Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a serpent,
Like reptiles of the earth.
They will come trembling out of their fortresses;
To the Lord our God they will come in dread
And they will be afraid before You.

Mingled

Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 80:5
You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.
Job 3:24
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.
Lamentations 3:48
My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

General references

Psalm 69:10
When I wept in my soul with fasting,
It became my reproach.
Psalm 80:5
You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.
Ezekiel 12:18
“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling and drink your water with quivering and anxiety.

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