God’s Word Translation
Psalms 80:5
5You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink ⌞their own⌟ tears.
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
3O God, restore us and smile on us so that we may be saved. 4O Lord God, commander of armies, how long will you smolder in anger against the prayer of your people? You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink ⌞their own⌟ tears. 6You made us a source of conflict to our neighbors, and our enemies made fun of us. 7O God, commander of armies, restore us and smile on us so that we may be saved.
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 42:3My tears are my food day and night. People ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 102:9I eat ashes like bread and my tears are mixed with my drink
- Job 6:7I refuse to touch such things. They are disgusting to me.
- Isaiah 30:20The Lord may give you troubles and hardships. But your teacher will no longer be hidden from you. You will see your teacher with your own eyes.
- Ezekiel 4:16He also said to me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the bread supply in Jerusalem. People will anxiously eat rationed bread and fearfully drink rationed water.
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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