Psalms 80:5
Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 God of hostes, how long wilt thou be angrie against the prayer of thy people?
6Thou hast made vs a strife vnto our neighbours, and our enemies laugh at vs among themselues.
Cross References
Job 6:7Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.
Psalms 74:1A Psalme to give instruction, committed to Asaph. O God, why hast thou put vs away for euer? why is thy wrath kindled against the sheepe of thy pasture?
Psalms 102:9Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,
Lamentations 3:43Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.
Ezekiel 4:16Moreouer, he said vnto me, Sonne of man, beholde, I will breake the staffe of bread in Ierusalem, and they shall eate bread by weight, and with care, and they shall drinke water by measure, and with astonishment.
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 →