⁹ For I eat ashes^(A) as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears^(B)

⁵ You have fed them with the bread of tears;^(A)
    you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.^(B)

¹⁷ They will lick dust^(A) like a snake,
    like creatures that crawl on the ground.
They will come trembling^(B) out of their dens;
    they will turn in fear^(C) to the Lord our God
    and will be afraid of you.

⁴⁸ Streams of tears^(A) flow from my eyes^(B)
    because my people are destroyed.^(C)

⁴⁹ My eyes will flow unceasingly,
    without relief,^(D)

¹⁵ He has filled me with bitter herbs
    and given me gall to drink.^(A)

¹⁶ He has broken my teeth with gravel;^(B)
    he has trampled me in the dust.^(C)

²⁰ Such a person feeds on ashes;^(A) a deluded^(B) heart misleads him;
    he cannot save himself, or say,
    “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?^(C)”

²¹ They put gall in my food
    and gave me vinegar^(A) for my thirst.^(B)