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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 102:9

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; this relisheth to me as well as that, my mouth is so out of taste.

And mingled my drink with weeping] I forbare not to weep, no, not while I drank; for tow is dry, and wine driveth away sorrow, we say; not so from me. Wine is called by Simonides in Athenaeus αμυντωρ δυσφροσυναων, an expeller of sadness.

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See also Psalms 102:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 102:9. _I HAVE EATEN ASHES LIKE BREAD_] Fearful of what they might do, we all humbled ourselves before thee, and sought thy protection; well knowing that, unless we were supernaturally as...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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;...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    CII. The title, which is unique in the Psalter, describes the contents of Psalms 102:1 very well. So far the Ps. is the prayer of a man in extreme affliction. The same may be said of Psalms 102:23 and...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. belongs to the closing days of the exile, and utters the hope of Israel's restoration (Psalms 102:13). The Psalmist has been supposed by some to speak simply in the name of the nation, but it...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 102:10]_ כִּי ־אֵ֭פֶר כַּ † לֶּ֣חֶם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 102:1 Psalms 102:13 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 mood. The p...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CRY OF THE AFFLICTED Psalms 102:1 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 certain Dav...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 thos...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 might...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 hea...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For I have eaten ashes like bread, sitting in them as a sign of great mourning and strewing them upon his head and garments, AND MINGLED MY DRINK WITH WEEPING, Cf Psalms 42:3,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 102:9 eaten H398 (H8804) ashes H665 bread H3899 mingled H4537 (H8804) drink H8249 weeping H1065...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sorrowful complaint of great afflictions and a believing prospect of deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Psalmist. CONCLUSION: The greatest ease to an afflicted spirit is to unburden itself by a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 102:1. The title, “A Prayer of one afflicted,” makes it clear that this is an individual lament. At the same time, it is certainly not individualistic: the “I” who sings thi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 102:3 The singer focuses on his sense of discouragement: BONES BURN, HEART IS STRUCK DOWN, FORGET TO EAT MY BREAD, loud groaning

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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, espec...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 for the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In Psalms 102:1-28, David begins with a prayer asking God to hear his prayer. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 44:20; Job 3:24; Lamentations 3:15; Lamentations 3:16;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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