They gave [me] also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

Know that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul; see, you will not say, [There is a] lie in my right hand.

VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, He has drenched me with gall.

And He has dashed out my teeth with gravel, He has fed me with ashes.

You that are in Gath, exalt not yourselves, and you Enakim, do not rebuild from [the ruins of] the house in derision: sprinkle dust [in the place of] your laughter.

They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of you.

My tears have been bread to me day and night, while they daily said to me, Where is your God?

You will feed us with the bread of tears; and will cause us to drink tears by measure.

For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep, being beset with terror.

My eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

PHE. My eye is drowned [with tears], and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest,