Psalms 80:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Psalms 80:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou makest us a strife - An occasion of strife or wrangling; that is, of strife among themselves, to see who will get the most of our spoils; or of contention, to see which could do most to aggr...
Psalms 80:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thou makest us a (e) strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. (e) Our neighbours have continual strife and war against us.
Psalms 80:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXX. Then and Now. The Messianic Hope. The Ps. depicts Judah's forlorn condition, first directly ( Psalms 80:1-7 ) and then under the figure of a vine ( Psalms 80:8-19 ). It is divided into stroph...
Psalms 80:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

laugh among themselves. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "have mocked at us".
Psalms 80:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. Thou makest us a strife - The neighboring districts have a controversy about us; we are a subject of contention to...
Psalms 80:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours - i:e., an object of strife to the petty tribes on Israel's bor...
Psalms 80:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. is an appeal to God to save His people from the adversities that have come upon them, and have made them the laughing stock of their enemies ( Psalms 80:1-7 ). Their past history is recalled...
Psalms 80:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A strife — i.e., an object of contention. In no other sense could Israel be a strife to neighbouring nations. For the bearing of this on the date of the psalm see its Introduction. Laugh among...
Psalms 80:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 80:1-19 THIS psalm is a monument of some time of great national calamity; but its allusions do not enable us to reach certainty as to what that calamity was. Two striking features of it hav...
Psalms 80:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Turn Us Again, O God” Psalms 80:1-7 The ten tribes were in captivity, and the hearts of their brethren, still living at Jerusalem under the reign of David's line, seem to have turned with grea...
Psalms 80:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Again we have a song out of the midst of distress. There is far more light and colour about it than in the previous one. The circumstances do not seem to be any more favourable than those described b...
Psalms 80:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

These are most blessed tokens, and highly expressive of grace in the heart. And the prayer, being again repeated, plainly shows from whence alone the church looked for both the work of true prayer an...
Psalms 80:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours ,.... Either obliges us to contend with them for our defence and safety; or having given us into their hands, they strive and contend one with another abo...
Psalms 80:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. Ver. 6. Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours ] We have as many enemies as neighbours, all striving to en...
Psalms 80:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How long wilt thou be angry , &c. Thou art so far from answering our prayers, whereby we seek thy favour, that, by thy continuing and increasing our miseries, thou seemest to be more incensed ag...
Psalms 80:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Mournful Complaints. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim, Eduth. A psalm of Asaph. 1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israe...
Psalms 80:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A strife, i.e. the object or matter of their strife or contention; either, 1. They strive one with another who shrill do us most mischief, or take our spoils to themselves; or, 2. They are perp...
Psalms 80:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth .” On “ Shoshannim ” see Introduction to Psalms 45 . Probably “Shoshannim—Eduth” denotes “the melody or air ‘after’ or ‘...
Psalms 80:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 80:1-3 . Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy st...
Psalms 80:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Though we know not the occasion on which this song was composed, yet as the tribes still inhabited the land, it probably was written on the same occasion as the preseding, and prays for the same salv...
Psalms 80:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock. The Almighty in relation to erring man I. As a shepherd ( Psalms 80:1 ). 1. His flock indicated. “Joseph” may stand for...
Psalms 80:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION A PSALM in which the writer entreats God to restore his favour once more to Israel, and especially to the ten tribes, who are in affliction, and in danger of perishing ( Psalms 80:1...
Psalms 80:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Prayer for the Deliverance of the Church. To the chief musician upon Shoshannim-Eduth, to be rendered in public worship according to the melody "Lilies a Testimony," a psalm of Asaph, the hymn ref...
Psalms 80:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 36:4 ; Isaiah 36:12-20 ; Isaiah 36:8 ; Isaiah 37:23 ; Jeremiah 15:10 ; Jeremiah 48:27 ; Judges 16:25 ; Psalms 44:13 ; Psalms 44:14 ; Psalms 79:4 ; Revelation 11:10

Psalms 80:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 80:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 80:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 80:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 80:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 80:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 80:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 80:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 80:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 80:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 80:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 80:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 80:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 80:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 80:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge