New Living Translation
Psalms 80:5
5You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
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
3Turn us again to yourself, O God. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we be saved. 4O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, how long will you be angry with our prayers? You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful. 6You have made us the scorn of neighboring nations. Our enemies treat us as a joke. 7Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies. Make your face shine down upon us. Only then will we 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 42:3Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?”
- Psalms 102:9I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink
- Job 6:7My appetite disappears when I look at it; I gag at the thought of eating it!
- Isaiah 30:20Though the Lord gave you adversity for food and suffering for drink, he will still be with you to teach you. You will see your teacher with your own eyes.
- Ezekiel 4:16Then he told me, “Son of man, I will make food very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be rationed out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay.
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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