“ For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, ”
For I have eaten ashes like bread - I have seated myself in ashes in my grief (compare Job 2:8 ; Job 42:6 ; Isaiah 58:5 ; Isaiah 61:3 ; Jonah 3:6 ; Daniel 9:3 ; Matthew 11:21 ); and ashes...
For I have (g) eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, (g) I have not risen out of my mourning to take my refreshment.
CII. The title, which is unique in the Psalter, describes the contents of Psalms 102:1-11 very well. So far the Ps. is the prayer of a man in extreme affliction. The same may be said of Psalms 1...
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread Some think that the order is here inverted, and that the letter כ, caph, the sign of similitude, which is put before לחם, lechem, the word for b...
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, I have eaten ashes like bread - Fearful of what they might do, we all humbled ourselves before thee, and sought thy protection; w...
For I have eaten ashes— The serpent in Genesis is condemned to go on his belly, and to eat dust, to which his prone posture inevitably subjects him. Casting ashes upon themselves, or rolling themse...
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, For I have eaten ashes like bread. The "For" introduces the ground upon which his enemies reproach him ( Psalms 102:8 ) -...
This Ps. belongs to the closing days of the exile, and utters the hope of Israel's restoration ( Psalms 102:13-22 ). The Psalmist has been supposed by some to speak simply in the name of the nation,...
Ashes like bread. — Lamentations 3:16 . A figurative expression, like “dust shall be the serpent’s meat” ( Isaiah 65:25 ; comp. Genesis 3:14 ). With the last clause comp. Psalms 42:3 , “tears ha...
Psalms 102:1-28 Psalms 102:13-14 show that the psalm was written when Zion was in ruins and the time of her restoration at hand. Sadness shot with hope, as a cloud with sunlight, is the singer's...
the Cry of the Afflicted Psalms 102:1-11 This is the fifth of the Penitential Psalms. Some hold that it is one of the later psalms, asking for deliverance from captivity; others, emphasizing ce...
This is a song of faith triumphing over affliction. Beginning with a prayer for deliverance, and a statement of the circumstances of suffering in which he then was, together with a recognition of tho...
I make no chasm in the reading of these verses, because they form together a complete detail of the state of the sufferer, and serve the better, in an united point of view, to interest our hearts in...
For I have eaten ashes like bread ,.... He sitting in ashes, as Job did, and rolling himself in them in the manner of mourners; and, having no other table than the ground to eat his food upon, he mi...
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping, Ver. 9. For I have eaten ashes like bread ] Being cast on the ground as a mourner, I know not whether I eat bread or dust; thi...
I have eaten ashes like bread That is, instead of eating my bread, I have laid down in dust and ashes. Or, dust and ashes are as constant and familiar to me as the eating of my bread; I cover my he...
Complaints in Affliction. A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the Lord....
For; so this verse gives a reason either of his great sadness, expressed Psalms 102:6,7 , or why they swore by him in the sense last given. Or, surely , as this particle is oft used. Or, there...
INTRODUCTION It is impossible to determine on what occasion and by whom this Psalm was composed. Prof. Alexander and Hengstenberg regard it as a composition of David. But from internal evidence, esp...
Kindly notice the title of this Psalm: «Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.» I call your attention to it in order to remind you what charge...
It appears from Psalms 102:13-16 , that this psalm was written in Babylon, and near the time of the Jewish emancipation. It is highly prophetic of the greater deliverance by the Messiah, whose law s...
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto Thee. Thoughts of comfort and complaint I. Thoughts of complaint ( Psalms 102:1-11 ). 1. Concerning bodily sufferings. (1) The physical an...
EXPOSITION THE "title" of this psalm is altogether peculiar, being "a Prayer for the afflicted, when he faints, and pours out his complaint before Jehovah." This is clearly a general direction...
Complaint of One in Great Trouble. A prayer of the afflicted, one in great misery and distress, when he is overwhelmed, Psalms 61:2 , and poureth out his complaint, as from an inverted vessel, in...
Isaiah 44:20 ; Job 3:24 ; Lamentations 3:15 ; Lamentations 3:16 ; Lamentations 3:48 ; Lamentations 3:49 ; Micah 1:10 ; Micah 7:17 ; Psalms 42:3 ; Psalms 80:5 ; Psalms 69:21
Bread — The sense is, dust and ashes are as familiar to me as the eating of my bread; I cover my head with them; I sit, yea, lie down in them, as mourners often did.