"All our enemies have opened their mouths against us." — Lamentations 3:46

Lamentations 3:46 · KJV

“All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.”

— Lamentations 3:46

Verse 45

Thou hast made us {as} the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

Verse 47

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Lamentations 3 — Context

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that {our} prayer should not pass through.

Thou hast made us {as} the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Cross References

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 79:10

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where {is} their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight {by} the revenging of the blood of thy servants {which is} shed. {revenging: Heb. vengeance}

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.

Matthew 27:38-45

Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.

Psalms 79:4

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Exodus 11:7

But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.