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Psalms 80:5
5You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
Context of Psalms 80:5
3Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved. 4How long, Lord God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people? You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears by the bowlful. 6You have made us an object of derision to our neighbors, and our enemies mock us. 7Restore us, God Almighty; make your face shine on us, 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 have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 102:9For I eat ashes as my food and mingle my drink with tears
- Job 6:7I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.
- Isaiah 30:20Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.
- Ezekiel 4:16He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,
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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