Psalms 80:5
You have fed them with bread of tears, you have made them drink tears by the measure.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
In Context
4O Lord of hosts, how long is your anger to smoke, despite the prayer of your people?
6The scorn of our neighbors you make us, the laughing-stock of our foes.
Cross References
Psalms 74:1Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 102:9For ashes have been my bread, and tears have been mixed with my cup.
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 →