You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
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You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.
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Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
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(80-7) Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.
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Passages linked to Psalms 80:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 79:4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
- Judges 16:25 When their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson, that he may entertain us.” They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars;
- Psalms 44:13-14 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
- Isaiah 36:8 Now therefore, please make a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.
- Isaiah 36:12-20 But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?” Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! The king says, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us. This city won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’ Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards. Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Have any of the gods of the nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’ ”
- Isaiah 37:23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.
- Jeremiah 48:27 For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
- Ezekiel 36:4 therefore, you mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: The Lord Yahweh says to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which have become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are all around;
- Revelation 11:10 Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Our neighbors have continual strife and war against us.
Our neighbors have continual strife and war against us.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our…
Psa 80:6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Ver. 6. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours] We have as many enemies as neighbours, all striving to enslave us. We are crushed between them as corn is between millstones.
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And our enemies laugh among themselves] Make them merry in our misery, revel in our ruins.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain A strife, i.e. the object or matter of their…
A strife, i.e. the object or matter of their strife or contention; either,
1. They strive one with another who shrill do us most mischief, or take our spoils to themselves; or,
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2. They are perpetually quarrelling with us, and seeking occasions against us. Our neighbours, who used and ought to live peaceably and kindly with us. Laugh among themselves; insult over us, and take pleasure in our miseries.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours,.... Either…
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours,.... Either obliges us to contend with them for our defence and safety; or having given us into their hands, they strive and contend one with another about dividing the spoil:
and our enemies laugh among themselves; at us, and because there is no help for us in God, as they imagine; or at God himself, as Kimchi, saying he cannot save as.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. Thou makest us a strife] The neighbouring…
Verse 6. Thou makest us a strife] The neighbouring districts have a controversy about us; we are a subject of contention to them. A people so wonderfully preserved, and so wonderfully punished, is a mystery to them. They see in us both the goodness and severity of God. Or, all the neighbouring nations join together to malign and execrate us. We are hated by all; derided and cursed by all.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Thou makest us a strife - An occasion of…
Thou makest us a strife - An occasion of strife or wrangling; that is, of strife among themselves, to see who will get the most of our spoils; or of contention, to see which could do most to aggravate their sufferings, and to bring disgrace and contempt upon them. They were emulous with each other in the work of desolation and ruin.
Unto our neighbors - The surrounding nations. See Psa 79:4.
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And our enemies laugh among themselves - Over our calamities. They exult; they glory; they triumph in our ruin.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours—Thou…
6. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours—Thou makest us an object, or butt, of contention. We appear to our neighbours as though thou hadst a controversy with us. Or, it may mean, that by not coming to their help, and turning them back to a better state, God held up to the scorn and derision of the neighbouring nations the intestine quarrels of the Hebrew family, thus prolonging the shame of their dissensions. But whether the “strife” lay between the people and their God, or between the different branches of their own brotherhood, the petty nations around them, who always wished them evil, looked on and laughed among themselves. So is it ever with the world when the Church is distracted with divisions and factions.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. a strife &c.] An object of contention (Jer_15:10):…
6. a strife &c.] An object of contention (Jer_15:10): the petty states round about (Psa_79:4; Psa_79:12), Edomites, Arabians, and the like, quarrel among themselves for our territory. Lagarde conjectures that we should read mânôd, shaking (of the head), for mâdôn, strife, as in Psa_44:14, which would suit the parallelism better.
laugh among themselves] Rather, to their heart’s content, so, laugh scornfully. Cp. Psa_79:4.
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P.B.V. ‘laugh us to scorn’ follows LXX, Vulg., Jer.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) A strife—i.e., an object of contention. In no…
(6) A strife—i.e., an object of contention. In no other sense could Israel be a strife to neighbouring nations. For the bearing of this on the date of the psalm see its Introduction.
Laugh among themselves.—Literally, for themselves. But LXX. and Vulg. read, “at us.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours. A…
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours. A great invasion, Assyrian or Babylonian, was always a signal to the near neighbours of Israel Syria, Moab, Ammon, Edom to indulge in hostilities. (see 2Ki_24:2) And our enemies laugh among themselves. (comp. Psa_44:13 Psa_79:4)
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 6. "Thou makest us a strife unto our…
Ver. 6. "Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours." Always jealous and malicious, Edom and Moab exulted over Israel's troubles, and then fell to disputing about their share of the spoil. A neighbour's jeer is ever most cutting, especially if a man has been superior to them, and claimed to possess more grace. None are unneighbourly as envious neighbours.
"And our enemies laugh among themselves." They find mirth in our misery, comedy in our tragedy, salt for their wit in the brine of our tears, amusement in our amazement. It is devilish to sport with another's griefs; but it is the constant habit of the world which lieth in the wicked one to make merry with the saints' tribulations; the seed of the serpent follow their progenitor and rejoice in evil.
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