For I have eaten ashes like bread - I have seated myself in ashes in my grief (Job 42:6; Isaiah 58:5; [Refe…

Ashes like bread. —Lamentations 3:16. A figurative expression, like dust shall be the serpent’s meat ([Refere…

Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me. For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my …

For I have eaten ashes like bread. Some think that the order is inverted here, and that the letter כ, caph, the sign of compariso…

For I have eaten ashes like bread
He sitting in ashes, as Job did, and rolling himself in them in the manner of mour…

The whole word of God is of use to direct us in prayer; but here, as often elsewhere, the Holy Spirit has put words into our mouths. Here is a pray…