⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

³ My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

⁵ Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

²¹ They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²⁰ He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

¹⁶ He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

⁴⁸ Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹ Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.

¹⁰ Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

¹⁷ They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.