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

Pe All our enemies have opened their mouths upon us.

His wrath has torn me and has been against me; he gnashed upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpened his eyes upon me.

They opened their mouth upon me as a ravening and a roaring lion.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

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

Gnash

With immature hypocritical mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Zain The wicked plots against the just and gnashes upon him with his teeth.

Resh The wicked shall see it and be furious; Schin he shall gnash with his teeth and waste away: Tau The desire of the wicked shall perish.

When they heard these things, they were divided in their hearts and gnashed on him with their teeth.

We have swallowed

My enemies would daily swallow me up, for they are many that fight against me, O thou most High.

He shall send from the heavens and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

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

For thy waste and thy desolate places and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those that destroyed thee shall be separated far away.

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

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

and say unto the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord GOD, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thou didst say, Aha, it is well! upon my sanctuary, which was profaned; and upon the land of Israel, which it was made desolate; and upon the house of Judah, because they went into captivity;

therefore prophesy and say, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people;

Israel shall be swallowed up; soon they shall be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

I have heard the reproaches of Moab, and the revilings of the sons of Ammon, by which they have dishonoured my people and magnified themselves over their border.

We have seen

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

A disease of Belial, they say, cleaves fast unto him, and now that he lies he shall rise up no more.

But thou should not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither should thou have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day they were lost; neither should thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

General references

even all Gentiles shall say, Why has the LORD done thus unto this land? What means the heat of this great anger?

And I will make this city desolate and a hissing; every one that passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

And many Gentiles shall pass by this city, and each man shall say to his neighbour, Why has the LORD done thus unto this great city?

And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.