Psalms 35:16

Amidst profane praters of perversion, have they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15But, in mine overthrow, have they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together,—There gathered themselves together against me foolish men, and I knew it not, They have torn in pieces, and not been silent;

17My Lord! how long wilt thou look on? Bring back my soul out of their raging, from among lions, my solitary self.

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Cross References

Job 16:9His anger, hath torn and persecuted me, He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth, Mine adversary, hath sharpened his eyes for me.

Isaiah 1:14Your new moons and your appointed feasts, my soul, hateth,—They have become unto me a burden I am too weary to bear:

John 18:28So they lead Jesus from Caiaphas unto the judgment-hall. Now it was early; and, they themselves, entered not into the judgment-hall, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

1 Corinthians 5:8So then, let us be keeping the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of baseness and wickedness,—but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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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