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Psalm 102:9-11
New English Translation
Psalm 102:9-11
New English Translation
9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread,[a]
and mix my drink with my tears,[b]
10 because of your anger and raging fury.
Indeed,[c] you pick me up and throw me away.
11 My days are coming to an end,[d]
and I am withered like grass.
Footnotes
- 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.”
- Psalm 102:11 tn Heb “my days [are] like an extended [or “lengthening”] shadow,” that is, like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness.
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