Psalms 80:6

6 You make us contend with our neighbors; 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 O LORD God of Hosts, how long will Your anger smolder against the prayers of Your people?

5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

6 You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

7 Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.

8 You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.