Psalms 80:5
You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
Updated King James 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
4O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?
6You make us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Cross References
Job 6:7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.
Psalms 74:1O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does yours anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
Lamentations 3:43You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
Ezekiel 4:16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink 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 →