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Psalms 80:5
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You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
Thou hast fedde them with the bread of teares, and giuen them teares to drinke with great measure.
You fed them the bread of tearsand gave them a full measureof tears to drink.
You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
Instead of bread and water, you gave your people tears.
You have fed them the bread of tears, And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
You gave us tears for food, and you made us drink them by the bowlful.
Adonai , God of armies, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?
Thou feedest them with the bread of teares: and giuest them teares to drinke in great measure.
Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink their full measure of tears.
You have fed them the bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.
You made them eat with the bread of tears; yea, You made them drink with tears a third time.
You have fed your people with tears; you have made them drink many tears.
You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in great measure.
You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
You have fed them with the bread of tears. And You have made them drink a big amount of tears.
Thou hast fed them with the food of tears, And hast caused them to drink the water of weeping in threefold abundance.
(79-6) How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
You have given us sorrow to eat, a large cup of tears to drink.
You have fed them with the bread of tears, And You have made them drink tears in large measure.
Thou feedest them with the bread of teares: and geuest them plenteously teares to drinke.
You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:
Hou longe schalt thou feede vs with the breed of teeris; and schalt yyue drynke to vs with teeris in mesure?
Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
Thou hast fed the with the bred of teares, yee thou hast geuen the pleteousnes of teares to drynke.
You have fed them with the bread of tears, And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.
You have fed them with the bread of tears,And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 42:3, Psalms 102:9, Job 6:7, Isaiah 30:20, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 22:27 - bread of affliction 2 Chronicles 18:26 - bread of affliction Job 3:24 - my sighing Job 30:20 - I cry Ecclesiastes 4:1 - the tears Jeremiah 9:15 - I will Jeremiah 14:17 - let mine Ezekiel 12:18 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears,.... With tears instead of bread, having none to eat; or their bread is mingled with their tears, "dipped" therein, as the Targum; such was their constant grief, and the occasion of it, that they could not cease from tears while they were eating their meals, and so ate them with them n:
and givest them tears to drink in great measure; or the wine of tears "three fold", as the Targum. Jarchi interprets it of the captivity of Babylon, which was the third part of the two hundred and ten years of Israel's being in Egypt; which exposition, he says, he learned from R. Moses Hadarsan; but he observes, that some interpret it of the kingdom of Grecia, which was the third distress: and so Kimchi and Arama explain it of the third captivity; but Menachem, as Jarchi says, takes "shalish" to be the name of a drinking vessel, and so does Aben Ezra; the same it may be which the Latins call a "triental", the third part of a pint; unless the Hebrew measure, the "seah", which was the third part of an "ephah", is meant; it is translated a "measure" in
Isaiah 40:12 and seems to design a large one, and so our version interprets it; compare with this Isaiah 30:20.
n "----lachrymisque suis jejunia pavit", Ovid. Metamorph. l. 4. Fab. 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou 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 Psalms 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, abundantly. The word here rendered “great measure” - שׁלישׁ shâlı̂ysh - means properly a third, and is usually applied to a measure for grain - a third part of another measure - as, the third part of an ephah. See the notes at Isaiah 40:12. Then the word is used for any measure, perhaps because this was the most common measure in use. The idea seems to be, not so much that God gave tears to them in great measure, but that he measured them out to them, as one measures drink to others; that is, the cup, or cask, or bottle in which their drink was served to them was as if filled with tears only.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 80:5. Thou 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.
