Psalm 102:9 (WEB)
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,
Fathers and councils · 9
Jerome
“David, when his son was in danger after his adultery, made confession in ashes and with fasting.He tells us that he ate ashes like bread, and mingled his drink with weeping.And that his knees became weak through fasting.” — editor's note: Ps. cii. 9.
Read the whole comment“Can we, any of us, honestly make his words our own: “I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping?”” — editor's note: Ps. cii. 9.
Read the whole comment“Once she ate ashes like bread and mingled her drink with weeping; saying “my tears have been my meat day and night;” but now for all time she eats the bread of angels and sings: “O taste and see that the Lord is good;” and…” — editor's note: Ps. cii. 9.
Read the whole comment“After you have paid the most careful attention to your thoughts, you must then put on the armour of fasting and sing with David: “I chastened my soul with fasting,” and “I have eaten ashes like bread,” and “as for me when they troubled me my clothing was sackcloth.”” — editor's note: Ps. cii. 9.
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Ambrose of Milan
“David, as it were, “ate ashes for bread, and mingled his drink with weeping,” and therefore now rejoices the more because he wept the more: “Mine eyes ran down,” he said, “with rivers of water.”” — editor's note: Ps. cii. [ci.] 9.
Read the whole comment“Does he seem to us an insignificant authority, the elect forefather of the Lord after the flesh, who ate ashes as it were bread, and mingled his drink with weeping, and by his tears at night gained for himself the joy of redemption in the morning?” — editor's note: Ps. cii. [ci.] 9.
Read the whole comment“He was a follower of those unspotted from the world, one who mixed ashes with his food when bewailing his sins, and mingled his drink with weeping.” — editor's note: Ps. cii. [ci.] 9.
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Augustine of Hippo
““I have eaten ashes as it were bread: and mingled my drink with weeping.”” — editor's note: Ps. cii. 9.
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Tertullian
“With such food did David express his own exomologesis; “eating ashes indeed as it were bread,” that is, bread dry and foul like ashes: “mingling, moreover, his drink with weeping”—of course, instead of wine.” — editor's note: See Ps. cii. (in LXX. ci.) 9.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 6.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance II.10.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 6.