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Psalms 80:6

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

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In the Hebrew text this line is Psalms 80:7.

תְּשִׂימֵ֣נוּtesimenvputשׂוּםverb, qal, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, singular, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “put”, an unfinished actionH7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)[idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase]…מָ֭דוֹןmadonbrawlingמָדוֹןnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “brawling”, the ordinary formH4066a contest or quarrelbrawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare H4079 (מִדְיָן), H4090 (מְדָן).לִשְׁכֵנֵ֑ינוּlishkheneynvto inhabitantשָׁכֵןpreposition, adjective, adjective, masculine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “to inhabitant”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH7934a resident; by extension, a fellow-citizeninhabitant, neighbour, nigh.וְ֝אֹיְבֵ֗ינוּveoyeveynvand enemyאֹיֵבconjunction, verb, qal, participle, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “and enemy”, a verb used as a describing wordH341hating; an adversaryenemy, foe.יִלְעֲגוּyilagvhave in derisionלָעַגverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “have in derision”, an unfinished actionH3932to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligiblyhave in derision, laugh (to scorn), mock (on), stammering.לָֽמוֹlamvotoלָֽמוֹpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “to”to

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

(80-7) Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.

Young’s Literal Translation

Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it.

World English Bible

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Darby Translation

Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.

Douay-Rheims

He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

(80-7) Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours; and our enemies mock as they please.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Thou hast made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἔθου ἡμᾶς εἰς ἀντιλογίαν τοῖς γείτοσιν ἡμῶν, καὶ οἱ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν ἐμυκτήρισαν ἡμᾶς.