Psalm 80:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears
and given them tears to drink in full measure.(A)
Isaiah 30:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself any longer, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.(A)
Read full chapter
Psalm 42:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 My tears have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me continually,
“Where is your God?”(A)
Psalm 102:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
and mingle tears with my drink,(A)
Ezekiel 4:16-17
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread[a] in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.(A) 17 Lacking bread and water, they will look at one another in dismay and waste away under their punishment.(B)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 4.16 Heb staff of bread
Job 6:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 My appetite refuses to touch them;
they are like food that is loathsome to me.[a]
Footnotes
- 6.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.