They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is this not a lie in my right hand?

He has filled me with bitterness and made me drunk with wormwood.

He also broke my teeth with gravel; He has covered me with ashes.

Do not declare it in Gath; do not weep and wail. In Beth Aphrah roll and wallow in dust.

They shall lick the dust like a snake; they shall tremble out from their holes like ones that shrink back into the earth; they shall dread Jehovah our God; they shall fear because of You.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink a third time.

For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings pour out like waters.

Streams of water run down my eyes for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

My eyes flow and do not cease, with no stopping,