Psalms 80:5
for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
In Context
4Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,
Cross References
Job 6:7The things that my soul was unwilling to touch before, now, because of anguish, are my foods.
Psalms 74:1Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.
Psalms 102:9He will not be angry forever, and he will not threaten for eternity.
Lamentations 3:43SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.
Ezekiel 4:16And he said to me: “Son of man, behold: I will crush the staff of bread in Jerusalem. And they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety. And they will drink water by measure and with anguish.
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 →