Psalms 80:6
Thou hast made us the object of strife to our neighbors, And our enemies hold us in derision.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
In Context
5For thou causest them to eat the bread of tears, And givest them tears to drink, in full measure.
7Bring us back, O God of hosts! And cause thy face to shine that we may be saved!
Cross References
Psalms 42:4When I think of it, I pour out my soul in grief; How I once walked with the multitude, Walked slowly with them to the house of God, Amid sounds of joy and praise with the festive multitude!
Psalms 79:4We have become the reproach of our neighbors,—The scorn and derision of those around us.
Isaiah 36:12But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to speak these words to thy master and to thee only, and not to the people who sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?
Jeremiah 15:10Alas for me, my mother, that thou hast borne me, To live in strife and contention with all the land! I have neither borrowed nor lent money, Yet doth every one curse me!
Ezekiel 36:4therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, to the mountains and the hills, the valleys and the plain, to the desolate wastes and to the forsaken cities, which are become a prey and a derision to the residue of the nations which 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 →