Lamentations 3:46 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

KJV

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ASV

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

WEB

All our enemies open their mouths against us.

YLT

Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.

DBT

All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

About this book

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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10 verses on the floor

Psalms 22:6–8
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Lamentations 2:16
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
Psalms 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalms 44:13–14
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Job 30:9–11
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

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), have gaped upon us as roaring lions, to swallow us up, or made mouths at us, or have taken liberty to say what they please of us." These complaints we had before, ch. ii. Note, It is common for base and ill-natured men to run upon, and run down, those that have fallen into the depths of distress from the height of honour. But this they brought upon themselves by sin.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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