Psalms 80:6

6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

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 wilt Thou be angry against the prayer of Thy people?

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

6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

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

8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; Thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.