Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
In Context
45Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Cross References
Exodus 11:7But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that Jehovah doth make a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Psalms 44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 79:10Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.
Matthew 27:38Then are there crucified with him two robbers, one on the right hand and one on the left.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →