You feed them with the bread of tears – literally, “You cause them to eat the bread of tears,” or of weeping. That is, their food was acco…

Bread of tears. —See Psalm 42:3.

In great measure. —Heb., shalîsh, i.e., a third part. (Compare to…

Israel was evidently in very deep distress, yet still God's own. It is no evidence of our having ceased to be God's people that we are made to drin…

Thou hast fed us with bread of tears, etc. By these forms of expression, they depict the greatness of their grief and the long continuance…

You feed them with the bread of tears
With tears instead of bread, having none to eat; or their bread is mingled wit…

He who dwells upon the mercy-seat is the good Shepherd of His people. But we can neither expect the comfort of His love nor the protection of His a…