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Psalms 80:5
5You have caused us to eat tears as our food. Buckets full of tears is what we drink.
Psalms 80:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
- New International Version (NIV)You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in great measure.
Context of Psalms 80:5
3God, turn us to come back to you. Look at us with a smile on your face! Then we will be safe. 4Lord God Almighty, we, your people, are praying to you. How long will you continue to be angry with us? You have caused us to eat tears as our food. Buckets full of tears is what we drink. 6You have caused the people who live near us to laugh at us. Our enemies insult us. 7God Almighty, turn us to come back to you. Look at us with a smile on your face! Then we will be safe.
Read all of Psalms 80Psalms 80:5 word by word
הֶ֭אֱכַלְתָּם לֶ֣חֶם דִּמְעָ֑ה וַ֝תַּשְׁקֵ֗מוֹ בִּדְמָע֥וֹת שָׁלִֽישׁ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 80:5
- Psalms 42:3All day and all night I weep. My tears are my only food! My enemies say to me all the time, ‘Where is your God?’
- Psalms 102:9Because you are so angry with me, I eat ashes as my food. My tears drop into the water that I drink. It seems that you have picked me up, and then you have thrown me away.
- Job 6:7I cannot eat that kind of food. It makes me ill.
- Isaiah 30:20The Lord God has given trouble to you, like bread that you must eat. He has given pain to you, as water that you must drink. But he will no longer hide himself from you. He will be with you, to teach you and to be your guide.
- Ezekiel 4:16Then God said to me, ‘Son of man, I will soon take away the bread in Jerusalem. The people will have to measure the food that they eat. And they will have to measure the water that they drink. They will worry and be afraid.
Commentaries on Psalms 80:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears - They have no peace, no comfort, nothing but continual sorrow. In great measure - שליש shalish, threefold. Some think it was a certain measure used by the Chaldeans, the real capacity of which is not known. others think it signifies abundance or abundantly.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears - literally, “Thou causest them to eat the bread of tears,” or of weeping. That is, their food was accompanied with tears; even when they ate, they wept. Their tears seemed to moisten their bread, they flowed so copiously. See the notes at Psalm 42:3. And givest them tears to drink - So abundant were their tears that they might constitute their very drink. In great measure - Or rather by measure; that is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-7The people cry out for rescue from the shame of their recent defeat. The enemy’s victory is less devastating, however, than the knowledge that they themselves are objects of God’s wrath.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. bread of tears--still an Eastern figure for affliction.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 80
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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