Psalm 80:5 {79:6}
Good News Translation
You have given us sorrow to eat, a large cup of tears to drink.

New Revised Standard Version
You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.

Contemporary English Version
You gave us tears for food, and you made us drink them by the bowlful.

New American Bible
You have fed them the bread of tears, made them drink tears in great measure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

Psalm 42:3 My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

Psalm 102:9 For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

Job 6:7 The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.

Isaiah 30:20 And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.

Ezekiel 4:16,17 And he said to me: Son of man: Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care: and they shall drink water by measure, and in distress. . . .

Context
Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel
4O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant? 5How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?6Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.…
Cross References
Psalm 42:3
My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?

Psalm 102:9
For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

Psalm 126:5
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Isaiah 30:20
And the Lord will give you spare bread, and short water: and will not cause thy teacher to flee away from thee any more, and thy eyes shall see thy teacher.

Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Psalm 80:4
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