With the bread of tears; either with tears instead of bread, which they either want, or cannot eat because their grief hath taken away their appetites; or with tears as frequent and constant as their eating it. See the like phrase Psalms 42:3.
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 certa...
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. Thei...
Psalms 80 Looking to Heaven for Help Through the Man at His Right Hand _ 1. Calling to the Shepherd (Psalms 80:1)_ 2. The ruin of His inheritance (Psalms 80:5) 3. The Man of the right hand ...
LXXX. THEN AND NOW. THE MESSIANIC HOPE. The Ps. depicts Judah's forlorn condition, first directly (Psalms 80:1) and then under the figure of a vine (Psalms 80:8). It is divided into strophes by the re...
How long shall Israel continue to be the object of Jehovah's displeasure, and the scorn of neighbouring nations?...
Thou hast fed them with bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure. i.e. made tears their daily portion: cp. Psalms 42:3; Psalms 102:9. _In large measure_, lit. _by the tierce_,...
PSALMS 80 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Prayer for the Flock and Vine of Israel. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 80:1-3, By Three Significant Titles, Jehovah is besought to interpose for Salvation, before Three Sig...
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. THOU FEEDEST THEM WITH THE BREAD OF TEARS - making tears their bread (). AND GIVEST THEM TEARS TO DRINK...
This Ps. is an appeal to God to save His people from the adversities that have come upon them, and have made them the laughing stock of their enemies (Psalms 80:1). Their past history is recalled unde...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ MAKE US UNITED PSALMS 80 Jesus said, "I pray for the people that will believe in me … that they may be united. Then the world will believe that you sent me". ...
BREAD OF TEARS. — See Psalms 42:3. IN GREAT MEASURE. — Heb., _shalîsh, i.e.,_ a third part. (Comp. Isaiah 40:12, Margin.) Probably meaning a third part of an ephah. (See Exodus 16:36;...
_[Psalms 80:6]_ הֶ֭אֱכַלְתָּם לֶ֣חֶם דִּמְעָ֑ה וַ֝ תַּשְׁקֵ֗מֹו...
Psalms 80:1 THIS psalm is a monument of some time of great national calamity; but its allusions do not enable us to reach certainty as to what that calamity was. Two striking features of it have been...
“TURN US AGAIN, O GOD” Psalms 80:1 The ten tribes were in captivity, and the hearts of their brethren, still living at Jerusalem under the reign of David's line, seem to have turned with great longin...
Again we have a song out of the midst of distress. There is far more light and colour about it than in the previous one. The circumstances do not seem to be any more favourable than those described be...
_Jacob. It is a duty which we owe to God, in obedience to his command. Hebrew may be, (Haydock) "a decree for the princes ( gods) of Jacob." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "a law of," &c._...
These are most blessed tokens, and highly expressive of grace in the heart. And the prayer, being again repeated, plainly shows from whence alone the church looked for both the work of true prayer and...
5_Thou hast fed us with bread of tears, etc. _By these forms of expression, they depict the greatness of their grief, and the long continuance of their calamities; as if they had said, We are so fille...
In Psalms 80 it is remarkable how we are upon the ground of Israel here, their past or future historical associations, not Christ (though all depends on Him, of course) or the godly Jew in the midst o...
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 gri...
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. Ver. 5. _Thou feedest them with the bread of tears_] _Panibus fletu intinctis_ (Chald.). It is as ordinary...
_How long wilt thou be angry_, &c. Thou art so far from answering our prayers, whereby we seek thy favour, that, by thy continuing and increasing our miseries, thou seemest to be more incensed against...
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears, they were unable to eat, their tears were their only food, Psalms 42:4; AND GIVEST THEM TEARS TO DRINK IN GREAT MEASURE, all this being Oriental imagery to e...
PRAYER FOR THE DELIVERANCE OF THE CHURCH. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, to be rendered in public worship according to the melody "Lilies a Testimony," a psalm of Asaph, the hymn referr...
1-7 He that dwelleth upon the mercy-seat, is the good Shepherd of his people. But we can neither expect the comfort of his love, nor the protection of his arm, unless we partake of his converting gra...
Psalms 80:5 fed H398 (H8689) bread H3899 tears H1832 tears H1832 drink H8248 (H8686) measure H7991...
Psalms 80:1. _Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strengt...
CONTENTS: The tokens of God's favor besought and the former blessings cited as a basis for present deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: There is no obtaining favor with God until we are c...
Though we know not the occasion on which this song was composed, yet as the tribes still inhabited the land, it probably was written on the same occasion as the preseding, and prays for the same salva...
_Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock._ THE ALMIGHTY IN RELATION TO ERRING MAN I. As a shepherd (Psalms 80:1). 1. His flock indicated. “Joseph” may stand for all Is...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 80:1. This is a community lament for a situation in which the people have received hard treatment from the Gentiles. It asks God to “restore us, let your face shine that we...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 80:4 The people cry because God is ANGRY WITH his PEOPLE’S PRAYERS (which implies that they have been unfaithful, see...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth_.” On “_Shoshannim_” see Introduction to Psalms 45. Probably “Shoshannim—Eduth” denotes “the melody or air ‘after’ or ‘in t...
EXPOSITION A PSALM in which the writer entreats God to restore his favour once more to Israel, and especially to the ten tribes, who are in affliction, and in danger of perishing (Psalms 80:1, Psalms...
Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine foRuth (Psalms 80:1). God's dwelling between the cherubim. Actually, in the book...
Ezekiel 4:16; Ezekiel 4:17; Isaiah 30:20; Job 6:7; Psalms 102:9;...