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You have fed us with sorrow
    and made us drink tears by the bucketful.
You have made us the scorn[a] of neighboring nations.
    Our enemies treat us as a joke.

Turn us again to yourself, O God of Heaven’s Armies.
    Make your face shine down upon us.
    Only then will we be saved.

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  1. 80:6 As in Syriac version; Hebrew reads the strife.

You have fed them with the bread of tears;(A)
    you have made them drink tears by the bowlful.(B)
You have made us an object of derision[a] to our neighbors,
    and our enemies mock us.(C)

Restore us, God Almighty;
    make your face shine on us,
    that we may be saved.(D)

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

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.

Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

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