Psalms 35:16
They were separated, and repented not : they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn : they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
In Context
17Lord, when wilt thou look upon me? rescue thou soul from their malice : my only one from the lions.
Cross References
Job 16:9My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.
Isaiah 1:14My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
John 18:28Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning; and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.
1 Corinthians 5:8Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread 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 →