Psalms 80:6

Thou dost make us an object of contention to our neighbours, And, our foes, find mockery for themselves.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

In Context

5Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.

7O God of hosts, bring us back, And light up thy face, That we may be saved.

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Cross References

Psalms 42:4These things, I keep calling to mind, and pouring out, over me, my own soul, For I used to cross over with a crowd, Lead them in procession up to the house of God, With the voice of shouting and praise.—a throng keeping festival.

Psalms 79:4We have become, A reproach to our neighbours,—A mockery and a derision, to them who are round about us.

Isaiah 36:12But Rabshakeh said—Is it unto thy lord and unto thee, that my lord hath sent me, to speak these things? Is it not concerning the men who are tarrying upon the wall, that they may eat and drink what cometh from them, with you?

Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me! my mother, That thou didst bear me, A man of litigation and a man of contention to all the land,—I have not lent on interest Nor have they lent on interest to me, Every one, hath treated me with contempt.

Ezekiel 36:4Therefore ye mountains of Israel, hear ye the word of My Lord Yahweh,— Thus saith My Lord, Yahweh, To the mountains and to the hills, to the channels and to the valleys, and to the desolate waste places and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and a derision, to the rest of the nations which are on every side:

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 →

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