⁹ Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

³ My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where `is' thy God?'

⁵ Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.

²⁴ For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters `are' my roarings.

²¹ And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.

²⁰ Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'

¹⁵ He hath filled me with bitter things, He hath filled me `with' wormwood.

¹⁶ And He breaketh with gravel my teeth, He hath covered me with ashes.

⁴⁸ Rivulets of water go down my eye, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁴⁹ Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission,

¹⁰ In Gath tell ye not -- in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dust roll thyself.

¹⁷ They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, They tremble from their enclosures, Of Jehovah our God they are afraid, Yea, they are afraid of Thee.