Lamentations 2:16

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.

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

The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

Gnash

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.

We have swallowed

My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.

And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you said, Aha! against my holy place when it was made unclean, and against the land of Israel when it was made waste, and against the people of Judah when they were taken away as prisoners;

For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:

Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.

We have seen

Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.

General references

Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?

And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.

And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?

And all flesh will see that I the Lord have had it lighted: it will not be put out.