Lamentations 3:46
Wide have all our enemies opened against us their mouth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
In Context
45As something loathsome and rejected hast thou rendered us in the midst of the people.
47Terror and a snare are come upon us, [with] desolation and breaches.
Cross References
Exodus 11:7But against any of the children of Israel not a dog shall move his tongue, neither against man nor beast; in order that ye may know how that the Lord doth distinguish between the Egyptians and Israel.
Psalms 22:6(22:7) But I am a worm, and not a man, a reproach of men, and despised of people.
Psalms 44:13(44:14) Thou renderest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are round about us.
Psalms 79:10Wherefore shall the nations say, Where is their God? let there be made known among the nations before our eyes, the vengeance for the blood of thy servants which hath been shed.
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 →