Lamentations 3:46
“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
In Context
45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
47Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
Cross References
Exodus 11:7But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
Psalms 44:13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
Psalms 79:10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
Matthew 27:38Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his 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 →