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 against us.

His anger teareth and pursueth me; he gnasheth with his teeth against me; as mine adversary he sharpeneth his eyes at me.

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

And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said, Aha! aha! our eye hath seen it.

For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue,

Gnash

With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

The wicked man shall see it and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

And hearing these things they were cut to the heart, and gnashed their teeth against him.

We have swallowed

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily.

He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth.

Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

For in thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy destroyed land, thou shalt even now be too straitened by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

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

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

and say unto the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou saidst, 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 captivity:

therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because, yea, because they have made you desolate, and have swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the remnant of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and in the defaming of the people:

Israel is swallowed up: now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

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

We have seen

And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said, Aha! aha! our eye hath seen it.

A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he is laid down, he will rise up no more.

But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; nor have opened wide thy mouth in the day of distress.

General references

even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?

And I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing; every one that passeth by shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?

And all flesh shall see that I Jehovah have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.