Psalms 35:16 · KJV
“With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.”
— Psalms 35:16
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: {yea}, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew {it} not; they did tear {me}, and ceased not: {adversity: Heb. halting}
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. {darling: Heb. only one}
Psalms 35 — Context
I behaved myself as though {he had been} my friend {or} brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth {for his} mother. {behaved myself: Heb. walked} {as though...: Heb. as a friend, as a brother to me}
15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: {yea}, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew {it} not; they did tear {me}, and ceased not: {adversity: Heb. halting}
16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
17Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. {darling: Heb. only one}
18I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. {much: Heb. strong}
Cross References
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 37:12
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. {plotteth: or, practiseth}
Job 16:9
He teareth {me} in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
John 18:28
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. {the hall...: or, Pilate's house}
Acts 7:54
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with {their} teeth.
1 Samuel 20:24-42
So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
Isaiah 1:14-15
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear {them}.
1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened {bread} of sincerity and truth. {the feast: or, holyday}