Psalms 35:16
Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
In Context
17LORD, how long will thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Cross References
Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.
Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They are a trouble to me. I am weary of bearing them.
John 18:28They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas to the Praetorium. And it was early, and they did not enter into the Praetorium, so that they would not be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
1 Corinthians 5:8Therefore we should feast, not by old leaven, nor by leaven of evil and wickedness, but by non-leaven of sincerity and truth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 35:12-17
Prayer for Deliverance; Sorrowful Complaints. 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. 14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves… Read the whole commentary →