My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where {is} thy God?

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee. {worms: or, creeping things}

Declare ye {it} not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. {Aphrah: that is, Dust}

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, {Is there} not a lie in my right hand?

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, {Is there} not a lie in my right hand?

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where {is} thy God?

And {though} the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: {affliction: or, oppression}

My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids {is} the shadow of death;

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

And said, Remember now, O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done {that which is} good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. {sore: Heb. with great weeping}

He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. {covered...: or, rolled me in the ashes}

And say, Thus saith the king, Put this {fellow} in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done {that which is} good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. {sore: Heb. with a great weeping}

And say, Thus saith the king, Put this {fellow} in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.

The things {that} my soul refused to touch {are} as my sorrowful meat.

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and {he hath} much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, {even} the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.