Psalm 80

Psalms · Chapter 80

Psalms 80:6

1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.3Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.4O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.7Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.8Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.9Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.11She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.12Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?13The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.14Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;15And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.18So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.19Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
you make usתְּשִׂימֵ֣נוּte-si-ME-nuH7760A
to set: make

שׂוּם (sum) : make/establish 1) to put, place, set, appoint, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to put, set, lay, put or lay upon, lay (violent) hands on 1a2) to set, direct, direct toward 1a2a) to extend (compassion) (fig) 1a3) to set, ordain, establish, found, appoint, constitute, make, determine, fix 1a4) to set, station, put, set in place, plant, fix 1a5) to make, make for, transform into, constitute, fashion, work, bring to pass, appoint, give 1b) (Hiphil) to set or make for a sign 1c) (Hophal) to be set

a contentionמָ֭דוֹןMA-donH4066
strife

מָדוֹן (ma.don) 1) strife, contention 1a) strife, contention 1b) object of contention

to neighbors ourלִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּlish-khe-NEI-nuH7934
neighboring

שָׁכֵן (sha.khen) 1) inhabitant, neighbour 1a) inhabitant 1b) neighbour

and enemies ourוְ֝אֹיְבֵ֗ינוּve-'o-ye-VEI-nuH0341
enemy

אֹיֵב (o.yev) 1) (Qal) enemy 1a) personal 1b) national

they mockיִלְעֲגוּ־yil-'a-gu-H3932
to mock

לָעַג (la.ag) 1) to mock, deride, ridicule 1a) (Qal) to mock, deride, have in derision 1b) (Niphal) to stammer 1c) (Hiphil) to mock, deride

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.