Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
In Context
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
47Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Cross References
Exodus 11:7But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog whet his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.
Psalms 22:6(22-7) But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Psalms 44:13(44-14) Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn 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 Thy servants' blood that is shed be made known among the nations in our sight.
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 →