Lamentations 3:46

46 All our enemies have ¹opened their mouths against us.

Lamentations 3:46 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
] Like lions and other beasts of prey, to devour us; or in way of scorn and derision; pouring out their reproaches upon us, and scoffs at us, for our religion, and the worship of God, and on account of present miseries and distresses; see ( Lamentations 2:16 ) . The Targum adds,

``to decree against us evil decrees.''

Lamentations 3:46 In-Context

44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.

45 You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Panic and pitfall have befallen us, Devastation and destruction;

48 My eyes run down with streams of water Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Cross References

• 1. Job 30:9, 10; Psalms 22:6-8; Lamentations 2:16