Contemporary English Version
Instead of food, I have ashes to eat and tears to drink,

New American Bible
I eat ashes like bread, mingle my drink with tears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

I Have

Psalm 69:21 And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Isaiah 44:20 Part thereof is ashes: his foolish heart adoreth it, and he will not save his soul, nor say: Perhaps there is a lie in my right hand.

Lamentations 3:15,16 He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood. . . .

Micah 1:10 Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Micah 7:17 They shall lick the dust like serpents, as the creeping things of the earth, they shall be disturbed in their houses: they shall dread the Lord, our God, and shall fear thee.

mingled

Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

Psalm 80:5 How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

Job 3:24 Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

Lamentations 3:48,49 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. . . .