Lamentations 3:46 (GNV)

Passage

All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:44 Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.

Lamentations 3:45 Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.

Lamentations 3:46 All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.

Lamentations 3:47 Feare, and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction.

Lamentations 3:48 Mine eye casteth out riuers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "enemies", "haue", "opened", "mouth", and "against". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "enemies" and "haue", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 45's "Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring..." into verse 47's "Feare and a snare is come vpon...", so "enemies" and "haue" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "enemies" and "haue" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.