"O Lord God of hosts,
How long will You be angry
Against the prayer of Your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And given them tears to drink in great measure." vv4-5
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Are you crying out to God over and over again and wondering if He hears you? Wondering when He'll see you in your distress and finally answer your prayers? The tears spoken of the psalmist here aren't tears caused by pain from their enemy but tears caused by feeling abandoned by God. Natural that God's angry of our sins, but here we see He's angry with the prayers. Are the prayers in vain? Distrust? Against the truth of God's character? So God feeds them with tears. "Their meat is seasoned with brine distilled from weeping eyes. Their meals, which were once such pleasant seasons of social merriment, are now like funeral feasts to which each man contributes his bitter morsel. Thy people ate bread of wheat before, but now they receive from thine own hand no better diet than bread of tears. "And givest them tears to drink in great measure." Tears are both their food and their drink, and that without stint. They swallow tierces of tears, and swim in gulfs of grief, and all this by God's own appointment; not because their enemies have them in their power by force of arms, but because their God refuses to interpose. Tear bread is even more the fruit of the curse than to eat bread in the sweat of one's face, but it shall by divine love be turned into a greater blessing by ministering to our spiritual health" (Spurgeon).
Are your tears so many that you could take a drink? The last verse of the psalm we see longing fulfilled and that only by God's grace.
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