Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Bible References

Thine

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have gaped at us.
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.
Psalm 22:13

They open wide their mouths against me,
Like a ravening and a roaring lion.
Psalm 35:21

They open their mouths wide against me;
They say, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”
Psalm 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me;
They have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Gnash

Psalm 35:16

Like godless jesters at a feast,
They gnashed at me with their teeth [in malice].
Psalm 37:12

The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.
Psalm 112:10

The wicked will see it and be angered,
He will gnash his teeth and melt away [in despair and death];
The desire of the wicked will perish and come to nothing.
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.

We have swallowed

Psalm 56:2

My enemies have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.
Psalm 57:3

He will send from heaven and save me;
He calls to account him who tramples me down. Selah.
God will send out His lovingkindness and His truth.
Psalm 124:3

Then they would have [quickly] swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;
Isaiah 49:19

“For your ruins and desolate places and your land [once the scene] of destruction—
Certainly now [in the coming years] will be too cramped for the inhabitants,
And those who once engulfed you will be far away.
Jeremiah 50:7

“All who found them have devoured them;
And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,
Because they have sinned against the Lord [and are no longer holy to Him], their [true] habitation of righteousness and justice,
Even the Lord, the [confident] hope of their fathers.’
Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me,
He has set me down like an empty vessel.
Like a monster he has swallowed me up,
He has filled his belly with my delicacies;
He has spit me out and washed me away.
Ezekiel 25:3
And say to the Ammonites, ‘Hear the word of the Lord God, for thus says the Lord God, “Because you 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 Judah when they went into exile,
Ezekiel 36:3
therefore prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “For good reason they have made you a desolation, and they crushed you from every side so that you would become a possession of the rest of the nations and you have become the talk and the whispering of the people.”’”
Hosea 8:8

Israel is [as if] swallowed up [by enemies];
They are now among the nations
Like a vessel [of cheap, coarse pottery] that is useless.
Zephaniah 2:8

“I have heard the taunting of Moab
And the revilings of the sons of Ammon,
With which they have taunted My people
And become arrogant against their territory [by violating Israel’s boundary and trying to seize its land].

We have seen

Psalm 35:21

They open their mouths wide against me;
They say, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”
Psalm 41:8

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him and holds him;
And when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”
Obadiah 1:12

“Do not gaze and gloat [in triumph] over your brother’s day,
The day when his misfortune came.
Do not rejoice over the sons of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Do not speak arrogantly [jeering and maliciously mocking]
In the day of their distress.

General references

Deuteronomy 29:24
All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done this thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
Jeremiah 19:8
I will make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will hiss [in scorn] because of all its plagues and disasters.
Jeremiah 22:8
“Many nations will pass by this city; and each man will say to another, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this great city?’
Ezekiel 20:48
All flesh will see that I the Lord have kindled it; it will not be quenched.”’”