⁹ For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mixed my drink with tears,

³ My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.

²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.

²¹ They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.

²⁰ He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.

¹⁶ He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.

⁴⁸ My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹ My eye pours down, and doesn't cease, without any intermission,

¹⁰ Don't tell it in Gath, Don't weep at all. At Beth Ophrah{Beth Ophrah means literally "House of Dust."} I have rolled myself in the dust.

¹⁷ They 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.