Text -- Psalms 102:9 (NET)

102:9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 102:9

¹ sn Mourners would sometimes put ashes on their head or roll in ashes as a sign of mourning (see 2 Sam 13:19; Job 2:8; Isa 58:5).

² tn Heb “weeping.”