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For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with tears,
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A Picture of Pervasive Grief
Commentators explain that eating ashes and drinking tears are powerful metaphors for a sorrow that infiltrates every part of life. Whether taken literally (mourning in sackcloth and ashes) or figuratively, the point is the same: the psalmist's grief is so profound that it taints even the basic acts of eating and drinking, offering no respite.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For I have eaten ashes like bread - I have seated myself in ashes in my grief (Job 42:6; Isaiah 58:5; [Refe…
19th Century
Anglican
Ashes like bread. —Lamentations 3:16. A figurative expression, like dust shall be the serpent’s meat ([Refere…
Baptist
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, an…
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16th Century
Protestant
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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