For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
they shall lick the dust like a serpent, like the crawling things of the earth; they shall come trembling out of their strongholds; they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God, and they shall be in fear of you.
Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-le-aphrah roll yourselves in the dust.
my eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. “My eyes will flow without ceasing, without respite,
He has filled me with bitterness; he has sated me with wormwood. He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;
He feeds on ashes; a deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”
They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
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