Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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Bible References

Hypocritical

1 Samuel 20:24
So David hid in the field; and when the New Moon [festival] came, the king sat down to eat food.
Isaiah 1:14

“I hate [the hypocrisy of] your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts.
They have become a burden to Me;
I am weary of bearing them.
John 18:28
Then the Jews led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium (governor’s palace). Now it was early and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium so that they would not be [ceremonially] unclean, but might [be able to] eat [and participate in the Feast of Unleavened Bread which began after] the Passover [supper].
1 Corinthians 5:8
Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of vice and malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and [untainted] truth.

Gnashed

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.
Job 16:9

“His wrath has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with his teeth;
My adversary sharpens His gaze and glares [with piercing eyes] at me.
Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies
Have opened their mouths wide against you;
They [scornfully] hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have swallowed her up!
Certainly this is the day for which we waited;
We have reached it, we have seen it!”
Acts 7:54
Now when they heard this [accusation and understood its implication], they were cut to the heart, and they began grinding their teeth [in rage] at him.

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Lamentations 3:14

I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,
And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.