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Lord God, you rule over all.
    How long will you be angry?
    Will you be angry with your people even when they pray to you?
You have given us tears as our food.
    You have made us drink tears by the bowlful.
You have let our neighbors mock us.
    Our enemies laugh at 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

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

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