Psalm 102:9-11

I eat ashes for food.

    My tears run down into my drink

because of your anger and wrath.

    For you have picked me up and thrown me out.

My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows.

    I am withering away like grass.

 

I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink

Isaiah 44:20   

The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes.

    He trusts something that can't help him at all.

Yet he cannot bring himself to ask,

    "Is this idol that I'm holding in my hand a lie?"  (see all chapter 44)

Psalm 42:3  

Day and night I have only tears for food,

    while my enemies continually taunt me, saying,

    "Where is this God of yours?"  (see all Psalm 42)

Psalm 80:5  

You have fed us with sorrow

    and made us drink tears by the bucketful.  (see all Psalm 80)

because of your anger and wrath. For you have picked me up and thrown me out. 

Psalm 7:11  

God is an honest judge.

    He is angry with the wicked every day.  (see all Psalm 7)

Psalm 38:3  

Because of your anger, my whole body is sick;

    my health is broken because of my sins.  (see all Psalm 38)

My life passes as swiftly as the evening shadows. I am withering away like grass. 

1 Chronicles 29:15  "We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on earth are like a passing shadow, gone so soon without a trace."  (see verses 10-25)

Job 8:9  

"For we were born but yesterday and know nothing.

    Our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow."  (see all chapter 8)

Job 14:2  

"We blossom like a flower and then wither.

    Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear."  (see all chapter 14)

Psalm 90:5-6  

You sweep people away like dreams that disappear.

    They are like grass that springs up in the morning.

In the morning it blooms and flourishes,

    but by evening it is dry and withered.  (see all Psalm 90)

Isaiah 40:7  

"The grass withers and the flowers fade

    beneath the breath of the LORD.

    And so it is with people."  (see all chapter 40)

James 1:11  The hot sun rises and the grass withers; the little flower droops and falls, and its beauty fades away. In the same way, the rich will fade away with all their achievements.  (see all chapter 1)

 

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