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16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
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.
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
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…
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