Psalms 80:6
Thou make us hatred to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
In Context
5Thou have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
Cross References
Psalms 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.
Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.
Isaiah 36:12But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words, [and] not to the men who sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?
Jeremiah 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, [yet] every one of them curses me.
Ezekiel 36:4therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of lord LORD. Thus says lord LORD to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have be
Matthew Henry on Psalms 80:2-8
Mournful Complaints. 1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. 2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. 3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. 4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 6 Thou makest us a strife… Read the whole commentary →