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

All our enemies jeer at us with gaping mouths.

His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.

Their mouths are opened wide toward me, like roaring and attacking lions.

They open their mouth wide against me, claiming, "Yes! Yes! We saw him do it with our own eyes!"

for the mouths of wicked and deceitful people are opened against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

Gnash

Malicious mockers they gnashed their teeth against me.

The wicked person plots against the righteous, and grinds his teeth at him.

The wicked person sees this and flies into a rage; his teeth gnash and wear away. The desire of the wicked will amount to nothing.

While they were listening to these things, they became more and more furious and began to grind their teeth at him.

We have swallowed

Those who watch me all day have harassed me, for there are many who fight against me out of conceit.

He will send help from heaven to deliver me from those who harass and despise me. Interlude God will send his gracious love and truth.

then they would have devoured us alive, when their anger burned against us.

Indeed, your ruins, your desolate places, and your devastated land will now be too crowded for your inhabitants, while those who swallowed you up will be far away.

All who find them devour them, but their enemies say, "We're not guilty, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their ancestors.'

"King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me. He set me down like an empty vessel. He swallowed me like a monster, and filled his belly with my delicacies. Then he washed me away.

Tell the Ammonites: "Listen to a message from the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says: "Because you have said, "Aha!' about my sanctuary when it was desecrated, about the land of Israel when it became desolate, and about the households of Judah when they went into exile,

"Therefore this is what you are to prophesy: "Here's what the Lord GOD says, "You've been turned into a desolate wasteland and crushed by everyone who surrounds you for a very, very good reason. You've become the property of all the other nations and you've become the object of gossip and whispering campaigns of the nations."'"

Israel has been devoured; now they will live among the nations like a worthless container.

"I've heard Moab's insults and the curses from those Ammonites by which they defame my people and boast about their territory.

We have seen

They open their mouth wide against me, claiming, "Yes! Yes! We saw him do it with our own eyes!"

They say, "Wickedness is entrenched in him. Once he is brought low, he will not rise again."

"You should not have gloated over your brother, on the day of his calamity. You should not have rejoiced when the descendants of Judah were perishing. You should not have boasted when they were in distress.

General references

All the nations will ask, "Why did the LORD do this to this land? What is the meaning of this fierce and great anger?'

I'll make this city into a desolate place and an object of scorn. All who pass by it will be astonished and will scoff because of all its wounds.

"Many nations will pass by this city and say to one another, "Why did the LORD do this to this great city?'

Then everyone will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it, because it won't be extinguished."'"