I have eaten ashes...

Posted by ESC August 21, 2000In reply to Mouthful of ashes? taste of ashes? posted by Bob on August 20, 2000

What does "dining on ashes" mean?

The only reference I could find was to a Star Trek movie, the Undiscovered Country. There is a one minute long musical sequence entitled "Dining on Ashes" and there is an exchange between Spock, Kirk and Chekhov concerning what might happen to them if they cross paths with a just discovered Romulan vessel:

Chekov: "But if he's cloaked..."

Kirk: "Then all we have is a neutron radiation surge, and by the time we're close enough to record it, we're ashes."

Kirk: "Dining on ashes. You all right?"

Spock: "It was an arrogant presumption on my part that got us into this
situation. You and the doctor might have been killed."

Kirk: "The night is young."

Isn't there some biblical quote about a taste of ashes? Any bible scholars out there?

Right here!

Psalms 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.