Lamentations 3:46
Verse 46 of 66. The 3rd of 5 chapters in Lamentations, in The Major Prophets.
42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
Lamentations 3:46 in the World English Bible
“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.Read Lamentations 3:46 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:46
Our enemies have opened their mouths against us (v. 46), have gaped upon us as roaring lions, to swallow us up, or made mouths at us, or have taken liberty to say what they please of us." These complaints we had before, ch. ii. 15, 16. Note, It is common for base and ill-natured men to run upon, and run down, those that have fallen into the depths of distress from the height of honour.
Read Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:42–54: Complaining to God. (b. c. 588.)
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