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 open their mouths against us;

He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion.

They open wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!"

For wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.

Gnash

like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.

The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him,

The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked will perish!

Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.

We have swallowed

my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.

He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!

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

"Surely your waste and your desolate places and your devastated land-- surely now you will be too narrow for your inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

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

"Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.

Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, 'Aha!' over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Precisely because they made you desolate and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people,

Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.

"I have heard the taunts of Moab and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.

We have seen

They open wide their mouths against me; they say, "Aha, Aha! Our eyes have seen it!"

They say, "A deadly thing is poured out on him; he will not rise again from where he lies."

But do not gloat over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; do not boast in the day of distress.

General references

all the nations will say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?'

And I will make this city a horror, a thing to be hissed at. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss because of all its wounds.

"'And many nations will pass by this city, and every man will say to his neighbor, "Why has the LORD dealt thus with this great city?"

All flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched."