Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
Parallel translations
- KJV Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
- BSB They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
- ESV They open wide their mouths against me; they say, “Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!”
- NKJV They also opened their mouth wide against me, And said, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it.”
- NASB They opened their mouth wide against me; They said, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it!”
- NLT They shout, “Aha! Aha! With our own eyes we saw him do it!”
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Cross-references · 6
- Ps 22:13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.
- Ps 40:15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
- Luke 11:53–54As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;
- Ps 70:3Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, “Aha! Aha!”
- Ps 54:7For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
- Isa 9:12The Syrians in front, and the Philistines behind; and they will devour Israel with open mouth. For all this, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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