Psalms 35:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalms 35:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
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.
Psalms 37:12
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
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.
Acts 7:54
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

Topics

Anger Cruelty Enemy Forgiveness Friends Gnashing of Teeth Hatred Heart

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-16)

Two very wicked things David here lays to the charge of his enemies, to make good his appeal to God against them—perjury and ingratitude. I. Perjury, Ps. 35:11. When Saul would have David attainted of treason, in order to his being outlawed, perhaps he did it with the formalities of a legal prosecution, produced witnesses who swore some treasonable words or overt acts against him, and he being not…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

15-16. On the contrary, they rejoiced in his affliction. Halting, or, “lameness,” as in Psa 38:17 for any distress. abjects--either as cripples (compare 2Sa 4:4), contemptible; or, degraded persons, such as had been beaten (compare Job 30:1-8). I knew it not--either the persons, or, reasons of such conduct. tear me, and ceased not--literally, “were not silent”--showing that the tearing meant sland…