16All 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.
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Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. …
Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)Justly are these called Lamentations , and they are very pathetic ones, the expressions of grief in perfection, mourning and woe, and nothing else, like the contents of Ezekiel’s roll, Ezek. 2:10. I. Copies of lamentations are here presented and they are painted to the life. 1. The judges and magistrates, who used to appear in robes of state, have laid them aside, or rather are stripped of them, a…
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