“All our enemies have spoken out against us.
Parallel translations
- WEB “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
- KJV All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
- BSB All our enemies open their mouths against us.
- NKJV All our enemies Have opened their mouths against us.
- NASB All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
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Quick answer
All their enemies mock and threaten them with open mouths.
Overview
This verse begins a closing lament, with enemies jeering at the fallen city. Such taunting compounds the suffering of God's people in their humiliation. The righteous sufferer surrounded by mocking foes anticipates Christ, who was reviled and mocked by enemies who opened their mouths against Him (Ps. 22:13; Matt. 27:39-43).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Lam 2:16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. 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 it. We have seen it.”
- Ps 22:6–8But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
- Exod 11:7But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal; that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.
- Ps 79:10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
- Job 30:9–11“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
- Ps 44:13–14You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
- Ps 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
- Matt 27:38–45Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
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Christ at the center
The weeping over a ruined city and the steadfast mercies that are new every morning point to the man of sorrows who wept over Jerusalem and whose mercy rises new from the grave.
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