My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where [is] thy God?'

Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.

And the Lord hath given to you bread of adversity, And water of oppression. And thy directors remove no more, And thine eyes have seen thy directors,

And He saith unto me, 'Son of man, lo, I am breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they have eaten bread by weight and with fear; and water by measure and with astonishment, they do drink;

so that they lack bread and water, and have been astonished one with another, and been consumed in their iniquity.