Psalms 80:5 · KJV
“Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.”
— Psalms 80:5
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? {be...: Heb. smoke}
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Psalms 80 — Context
Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? {be...: Heb. smoke}
5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Cross References
Isaiah 30:20
And {though} the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: {affliction: or, oppression}
Psalms 42:3
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where {is} thy God?
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Job 6:7
The things {that} my soul refused to touch {are} as my sorrowful meat.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
Moreover 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: