Psalms 80:5
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
BSB
ASV
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
KJV
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,.... 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 grief, and the occasion of it, that they could not cease from tears while they were eating their meals, and so ate them with them (n): and givest them tears to drink in great measure; or the wine of tears "three fold", as the Targum.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Isaiah 30:20The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
leads to
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words…
strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat— for He gives sleep to His beloved.
Through
Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
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Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among…
Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
