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Lord God All-Powerful, when will you listen to our prayers?
    How long will you be angry with us?
Instead of bread and water,
    you gave your people tears.
You made us the target of everyone’s hatred.
    Our enemies make fun of us.

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How long,(A) Lord God Almighty,
    will your anger smolder(B)
    against the prayers of your people?
You have fed them with the bread of tears;(C)
    you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.(D)
You have made us an object of derision[a] to our neighbors,
    and our enemies mock us.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 80:6 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text contention