unfoldingWord_en_tn/psa/080/004.md

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your people

Israel

You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in great quantities

The words "bread of tears" and "tears to drink" are metaphors for continual sadness. AT: "You have made sure that they are very sad all the time" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)