Psalm 80:6 {79:7}
Good News Translation
You let the surrounding nations fight over our land; our enemies insult us.

New Revised Standard Version
You make us the scorn of our neighbors; our enemies laugh among themselves.

Contemporary English Version
Because of you, our enemies who live nearby laugh and joke about us.

New American Bible
You have left us to be fought over by our neighbors; our enemies deride us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

thou

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

our enemies

Psalm 44:13,14 Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them. . . .

Psalm 79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Judges 16:25 And rejoicing in their feasts, when they had now taken their good cheer, they commanded that Samson should be called, and should play before them. And being brought out of prison, he played before them; and they made him stand between two pillars.

Isaiah 36:8,12-20 And now deliver thyself up to my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give thee two thousand horses, and thou wilt not be able on thy part to find riders for them. . . .

Isaiah 37:23 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 48:27 For Israel hath been a derision unto them: as though thou hadst found him amongst thieves: for thy words therefore, which thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be led away captive.

Ezekiel 36:4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the brooks, and to the valleys, and to desolate places, and ruinous walls, and to the cities that are forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided by the rest of the nations round about.

Revelation 11:10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry: and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth.

Context
Hear Us, O Shepherd of Israel
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.7O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.…
Cross References
Psalm 44:13
Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.

Psalm 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Psalm 80:7
O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

Psalm 89:42
Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

Psalm 137:3
For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.

Psalm 80:5
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