Psalms 80:6
\80:5\You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
In Context
5\80:4\O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?
Cross References
Psalms 42:4\42:3\My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
Psalms 79:4We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
Isaiah 36:12But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.
Jeremiah 15:10Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
Ezekiel 36:4For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:
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 →