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Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel

Psalms 80:5

In 11 translations

BSB
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
KJV
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
WEB
You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
ASV
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
LSV
You have caused them to eat bread of tears, || And cause them to drink || With tears a third time.
YLT
Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
DBY
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:
DRC79:6
How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?
GNV
Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.
JPS80:6
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
LXXE79:6
Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC80:6
הֶ֭אֱכַלְתָּם לֶ֣חֶם דִּמְעָ֑ה וַ֝תַּשְׁקֵ֗מוֹ בִּדְמָע֥וֹת שָׁלִֽישׁ׃KJV:Ps.80.5
LXX-Br79:6
Ψωμιεῖς ἡμᾶς ἄρτον δακρύων, καὶ ποτιεῖς ἡμᾶς ἐν δάκρυσιν ἐν μέτρῳ.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
  • Isaiah 30:20The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
  • Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
  • Ezekiel 4:16–17Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure. So they will lack food and water;…
  • Job 6:7My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 80:6 in some Bibles
  • 80:5 in most Bibles

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