Psalms 80:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Ps 79:4 : 4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.
  • Isa 36:8 : 8 And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.
  • Isa 36:12-20 : 12 But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in. 13 Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: 14 This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him. 15 And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria. 16 Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says, Make peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring; 17 Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens. 18 Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe. Has any one of the gods of the nations kept his land from falling into the hands of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? where are the gods of Samaria? and have they kept Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?
  • Isa 37:23 : 23 Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.
  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
  • Jer 48:27 : 27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.
  • Ezek 36:4 : 4 For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:
  • Rev 11:10 : 10 And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.
  • Judg 16:25 : 25 Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.
  • Ps 44:13-14 : 13 You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us. 14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

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  • Ps 44:13-14
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    13 You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

    14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

  • Ps 44:9-11
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    9 But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

    10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

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

  • Ps 80:3-5
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    3 Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

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

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

  • Ps 80:7
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    7 Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

  • Ps 79:4
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    4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

  • Ps 59:8
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    8 But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.

  • Ps 79:12
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    12 And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

  • Lam 3:45-46
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    45 You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

    46 The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

  • Ps 60:1
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    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt.> God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.

  • Ps 44:16
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    16 Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

  • Ps 44:7
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    7 But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

  • Ps 89:41-42
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    41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

    42 You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.

  • Ps 126:2
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    2 Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

  • Ps 2:4
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    4 Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.

  • Ps 52:6
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    6 The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

  • Ps 85:4-6
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    4 Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer.

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

    6 Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you?

  • Jer 48:27
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    27 For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.

  • Ps 74:18
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    18 Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

  • Ps 83:2
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    2 For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.

  • Ps 74:10
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    10 O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    3 You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

  • Job 17:6
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    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

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    15 Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

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    21 The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.

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    5 Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

  • Ps 108:11-12
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    11 Have you not sent us away from you, O God? and you go not out with our armies.

    12 Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

  • Lam 5:22
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    22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • Lam 3:43
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    43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

  • Ps 80:19
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    19 Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

  • Neh 4:4
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    4 Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

  • Ps 60:10-11
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    10 Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

    11 Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

  • Ps 102:8
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    8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.

  • Lam 3:14
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    14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

  • Ps 44:24
    69%

    24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

  • Ps 139:20
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    20 For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.

  • Ps 37:13
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    13 He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.