Ekhah 3:46

46 Kol oyveinu (all our enemies) have opened their mouths against us.

Ekhah 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.''

Ekhah 3:46 In-Context

44 Thou hast covered Thyself with an anan, that our tefillah not pass through.

45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse among the amim.

46 Kol oyveinu (all our enemies) have opened their mouths against us.

47 Pachad (terror) and a snare is come upon us, ruin and destruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with streams of mayim for the destruction of Bat Ami.