Psalms 35:16

With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

In Context

15But when I halt they rejoice, and gather themselves together; the abjects gather themselves together against me, and those whom I know not; they tear me, and cease not;

17Lord, how long wilt Thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, mine only one from the lions.

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Cross References

Job 16:9He hath torn me in His wrath, and hated me; He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth; mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed seasons My soul hateth; they are a burden unto Me; I am weary to bear them.

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 →

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