“Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.”
The community's shame is noted: "You make us the scorn of our neighbors; our enemies laugh among themselves." The public humiliation echoes Psalm 79; military defeat has led to social derision. The enemies' laughter emphasizes the mockery and contempt directed at the defeated people.
Church Fathers on Psalms 80:6
1. ...If perchance things obscure demand the office of an interpreter, those things which are evident ought to require of me the office of a reader. The song here is of the Advent of the Lord and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His vineyard. But the singer of the song is that Asaph, as far as does appear, enlightened and converted, by whose name ye know the synagogue to be signified. Lastly, the title of the Psalm is: “For the end in behalf of them that shall be changed;”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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