Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- KJV With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- NKJV With ungodly mockers at feasts They gnashed at me with their teeth.
- NASB Like godless jesters at a feast, They gnashed at me with their teeth.
- NLT They mock me and call me names; they snarl at me.
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Quick answer
Like godless mockers, his enemies gnashed their teeth at David in scorn.
Overview
David likens his attackers to profane scoffers who deride him with hostile contempt. Their gnashing teeth express violent malice and mockery. Such scorn against the righteous sufferer points toward the mockery surrounding Christ at the cross.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Lam 2:16All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
- Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- Ps 37:12The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
- John 18:28Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
- 1 Cor 5:8Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
- 1 Sam 20:24–42So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
- Isa 1:14–15I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
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