Psalms 80:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:3 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
  • Isa 30:20 : 20 And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
  • Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder: 17 So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

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  • 6You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

  • 7You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.

  • 3My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

  • 4O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people?

  • 9I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

  • 5Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy.

  • 3You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

  • 15The eyes of all men are waiting for you; and you give them their food in its time.

  • 15So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

  • 11You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

  • 20And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it.

  • 65You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.

  • 8The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

  • 21If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:

  • 28They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

  • 13And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.

  • Ezek 4:16-17
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    16And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:

    17So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.

  • 8You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

  • 17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • 16I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

  • 14You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

  • Isa 65:13-14
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    13For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:

    14My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.

  • 15And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

  • Ps 65:9-10
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    9You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

    10You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

  • 10For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

  • 5Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

  • 4The tongue of the child at the breast is fixed to the roof of his mouth for need of drink: the young children are crying out for bread, and no man gives it to them.

  • 23And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

  • 6Among the smooth stones of the valley is your heritage; they, even they, are your part: even to them have you made a drink offering and a meal offering. Is it possible for such things to be overlooked by me?

  • 15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.

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    7Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.

  • 11Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • 42For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:

  • 43Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

  • 20And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:

  • 15And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

  • 13You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

  • 21They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

  • 24In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

  • 15My blessing will be on her food; and her poor will be full of bread.

  • 22But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • 6We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.

  • 17For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.

  • 5You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.

  • 5Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations?

  • 4We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

  • 14O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.