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}

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

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

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

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, {even} this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

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

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of {such as were} oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors {there was} power; but they had no comforter. {side: Heb. hand}

Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;

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.

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.