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

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

²⁰ Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers;

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

⁷ My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.

¹⁶ Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

¹⁷ that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.