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Psalm 102:8-10
New English Translation
Psalm 102:8-10
New English Translation
8 All day long my enemies taunt me;
those who mock me use my name in their curses.[a]
9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread,[b]
and mix my drink with my tears,[c]
10 because of your anger and raging fury.
Indeed,[d] you pick me up and throw me away.
Footnotes
- Psalm 102:8 tn Heb “by me they swear.” When the psalmist’s enemies call judgment down on others, they hold the psalmist up as a prime example of what they desire their enemies to become.
- Psalm 102:9 sn Mourners would sometimes put ashes on their head or roll in ashes as a sign of mourning (see 2 Sam 13:19; Job 2:8; Isa 58:5).
- Psalm 102:9 tn Heb “weeping.”
- Psalm 102:10 tn Or “for.”
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