Psalms 35:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.”
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BSBPD
“Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“With profane ones, mockers in feasts, Gnashing against me their teeth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 35:16 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 20:24So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
- Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- Psalms 37:12The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- Isaiah 1:14I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
- 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!”
- 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.
- Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
- 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.
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