Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Lamentations 3:46 in other translations
| BSB | All our enemies open their mouths against us. |
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| WEB | “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
| ASV | All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
| YLT | Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies. |
| DARBY | All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. |
| BBE | The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us. |
| Webster | All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. |
What does Lamentations 3:46 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:46-48
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54
The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.
Lamentations 3:46 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:46
- 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 22:6-8
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
- 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.
- 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.
- Psalms 44:13-14
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
- Job 30:9-11
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
- Psalms 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
- Matthew 27:38-45
Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left. And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, …
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2:16; Ex 11:7; Job 30:9-11; Ps 22:6-8; 44:13,14; 79:4,10
Mt 27:38-45
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Context
- Lamentations 3:45
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
- Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
- Lamentations 3:47
Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Lamentations 3:46 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Todos nuestros enemigos abrieron sobre nosotros su boca. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tous nos ennemis ont ouvert la bouche sur nous. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Alle unsere Feinde haben ihren Mund gegen uns aufgesperrt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Aperuerunt super nos os suum omnes inimici. |