Contend with My Opponents, O LORD
Psalms 35:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.Or Like a godless circle of mockers,
- KJV
- With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- WEB
- Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- ASV
- Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- LSV
- With profane ones, mockers in feasts, || Gnashing their teeth against me.
- YLT
- With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.
- DBY
- With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.
- DRC34:16
- They were separated, and repented not: they tempted me, they scoffed at me with scorn: they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- GNV
- With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.
- JPS
- With the profanest mockeries of backbiting they gnash at me with their teeth.
- LXXE34:16
- They tempted me, they sneered at me most contemptuously, they gnashed their teeth upon me.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- בְּ֭חַנְפֵי לַעֲגֵ֣י מָע֑וֹג חָרֹ֖ק עָלַ֣י שִׁנֵּֽימוֹ׃
- LXX-Br34:16
- Ἐπείρασάν με, ἐξεμυκτήρισάν με μυκτηρισμὸν, ἔβρυξαν ἐπʼ ἐμὲ τοὺς ὀδόντας αὐτῶν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
GnashTeethGodlessFriendsEnemyHypocrisy; HyprocriteMock; Mocker; MockingScorning and MockingScoffingIngratitude
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Lamentations 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!”
- Psalms 37:12The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- 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.
- Isaiah 1:14–15I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your…
- 1 Samuel 20:24–42So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat. He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty. Saul said nothing that day…
- 1 Corinthians 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.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 34:16 in some Bibles
- 35:16 in most Bibles