I eat ashes like bread
and mingle my drinks with tears(A)

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For I eat ashes(A) as my food
    and mingle my drink with tears(B)

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20 The Lord will give you meager bread and water during oppression,(A) but your Teacher[a] will not hide Himself[b] any longer. Your eyes will see your Teacher,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 30:20 Or teachers
  2. Isaiah 30:20 Or themselves
  3. Isaiah 30:20 Or teachers

20 Although the Lord gives you the bread(A) of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers(B) will be hidden(C) no more; with your own eyes you will see them.

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They will not pour out
their wine offerings to the Lord,(A)
and their sacrifices will not please Him.
Their food will be like the bread of mourners;
all who eat it become defiled.(B)
For their bread will be for their appetites alone;
it will not enter the house of the Lord.

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They will not pour out wine offerings(A) to the Lord,
    nor will their sacrifices please(B) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;(C)
    all who eat them will be unclean.(D)
This food will be for themselves;
    it will not come into the temple of the Lord.(E)

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