“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
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Cross-references (8)
Passages linked to Lamentations 3:46 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 22:6-8 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying, “He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
- Lamentations 2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
- Exodus 11:7 But 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 Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
- Job 30:9-11 “Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face. For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
- Psalms 44:13-14 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
- Psalms 79:4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
- Psalms 79:10 Why 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 27:38-45 Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left. Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!” Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said, “He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain He repeats what he had said, that the people…
He repeats what he had said, that the people were an offscouring, or scrapings, or sweepings, and also a refuse. The last word is, indeed, in the infinitive mood, מאוס, maus, but it is to be taken as a noun. They had become all this, because they had as many enemies as neighbors; for we know that the Jews were hated by all the neighboring nations. They had become, then, a refuse and filth among all people, for with an open mouth they spoke furiously against them. For the open mouth means that they spoke insolently, and took the liberty of cursing them all, as it has been stated elsewhere. Now it was the bitterest thing to the miserable people, when they found that the reproaches and taunts of enemies were added to their calamities: for we know how grievously does reproach wound those who are already afflicted.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lam 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths…
Lam 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Ver. 46. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us,] i.e., Reviled and derided us. See Lam 2:16.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain That is, to mock, scoff, and reproach us.
That is, to mock, scoff, and reproach us.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Mine eye affecteth mine heart,.... Seeing the desolation of…
Mine eye affecteth mine heart,.... Seeing the desolation of his country; the ruins of the city and temple of Jerusalem; and the multitudes of those that were slain, and carried captive; and the distresses the rest were in; this affected his heart, and filled it with grief; as his heart also affected his eyes, and caused them to run down in rivers of water, as before expressed; or, as the Targum,
"the weeping of mine eyes is the occasion of hurt to my soul or life;''
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his excessive weeping endangered his life:
because of all the daughters of my city; not Anathoth, his native place, but Jerusalem; so the Targum,
"of Jerusalem my city.''
The meaning is, that his heart was affected at seeing the ruin of the inhabitants of Jerusalem; or of the towns and cities round about it, which that was the metropolis of. Some, as Jarchi, render it, "more than all the daughters of my city" (p); his heart was more affected with those calamities than those of the most tender sex, even than any or all of them.
(p) "supra cunctas filias civitatis meae"; so some in Vatablus; and Jarchi.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Pe is put before Ain (Lam 3:43, Lam 3:46),…
Pe is put before Ain (Lam 3:43, Lam 3:46), as in Lam 2:16-17; Lam 4:16-17. (Lam 2:16.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 46. On the peculiarity of the alphabetic arrangement here…
46. On the peculiarity of the alphabetic arrangement here see Intr., p. 321, and for this v. cp. ch. Lam_2:16.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 46-48. Here occurs a break in the alphabetic…
Vers. 46-48. Here occurs a break in the alphabetic order, as these three verses begin, not, as they should, with ayin, but with pe (see Introduction).
This verse is almost a verbal repetition of the first line of Lam_2:16.
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