Psalms 80:6

6 You make our neighbors fight over us, and our enemies mock us.

Psalms 80:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 80:6

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 about dividing the spoil:

and our enemies laugh among themselves;
at us, and because there is no help for us in God, as they imagine; or at God himself, as Kimchi, saying he cannot save as.

Psalms 80:6 In-Context

4 ADONAI, God of armies, how long will you be angry with your people's prayers?

5 You have fed them tears as their bread and made them drink tears in abundance.

6 You make our neighbors fight over us, and our enemies mock us.

7 God of armies, restore us! Make your face shine, and we will be saved.

8 You brought a vine out of Egypt, you expelled the nations and planted it,