A moment in scripture
Psalms 35:16
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With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 35:14
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
- Psalms 35:15
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
- Psalms 35:17
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
- Psalms 35:18
I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.