Lamentations 2:16

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Summary

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

Thine

Psalm 109:2

Gnash

We have swallowed

We have seen

Psalm 35:21

Psalm 41:8

Obadiah 1:12

General references

Bible References

Thine

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.

They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Gnash

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

The wicked man plots against the righteous man, and gnashes upon him with his teeth.

A wicked man shall see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of wicked men shall perish.

Now when they heard these things, they were split with a saw in their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth against him.

We have swallowed

My enemies would swallow me up all the day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

He will send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God will send forth his loving kindness and his truth.

then they would have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us,

For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that has been destroyed, surely now thou shall be too narrow for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed thee up shall be far away.

All who found them have devoured them, and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even LORD, the hope of their fathers.

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

And say to the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of lord LORD. Thus says lord LORD: Because thou said, Aha, against my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Ju

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips o

Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which no man delights.

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

We have seen

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

An evil disease, [they say], clings firm to him. And now that he lays he shall rise up no more.

But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the sons of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor speak proudly in the day of distress.

General references

even all the nations shall say, Why has LORD done thus to this land? What is the meaning of the heat of this great anger?

And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues of it.

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say each man to his neighbor, Why has LORD done thus to this great city?

And all flesh shall see that I, LORD, have kindled it. It shall not be quenched.