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

{Ayin} All our enemies gape upon us.

He is angry at me, he hateth me, and gnasheth upon me with his teeth. Mine enemy scowleth upon me with his eyes.

They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and a roaring lion.

They gape upon me with their mouths, saying, "There! There! We see it with our eyes!"

for the mouth of the ungodly, yea and the mouth of the deceitful is opened upon me, and speak against me with false tongues.

Gnash

With the flatterers were busy mockers, who gnashed upon me with their teeth.

The ungodly layeth wait for the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

The ungodly shall see it, and it shall grieve him; he shall gnash with his teeth, and consume away, and the desire of the ungodly shall perish.

When they heard these things, their hearts clave asunder, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.

We have swallowed

Mine enemies are daily at hand to swallow me up; for they be many that fight against me, O thou Most Highest.

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

they had swallowed us up alive, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

As for thy land that lieth desolate, wasted and destroyed: it shall be too narrow for them, that shall dwell in it. And they that would devour thee, shall be far away.

All they that came upon them, have devoured them: and their enemies said, 'We have made no fault against them, for they have displeased the LORD, yea even the LORD which is the beauty of their righteousness, and that defended their fathers.'

'Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured and destroyed me, he hath made me an empty vessel. He swallowed me up like a dragon, and filled his belly with my delicates: he hath cast me out.

and say unto the Ammonites, 'Hear the word of the LORD God. Thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as thou speakest over my Sanctuary, 'Aha,' I trow it be now suspended; and over the land of Israel, I trow it be now desolate; yea, and over the house of Judah, I trow they be now led away prisoners.

prophesy therefore, and speak: thus sayeth the LORD God: Seeing ye be wasted and trod down on every side, and become a possession unto the residue of the Gentiles, which have brought you into men's mouths and unto an evil name among the people:

Israel shall perish, the Gentiles shall entreat him as a foul vessel.

I have heard the despite of Moab, and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon: how they have shamefully intreated my people, and magnified themselves within the borders of their land.

We have seen

They gape upon me with their mouths, saying, "There! There! We see it with our eyes!"

They have given a wicked sentence upon me, "When he lieth, he shall rise up no more."

Thou shalt no more see the day of thy brother; thou shalt no more behold the time of his captivity; thou shalt no more rejoice over the children of Judah, in the day of their destruction; thou shalt triumph no more in the time of their trouble.

General references

And then all nations also say, "Wherefore hath the LORD done of this fashion unto this land? O how fierce is this great wrath?'

And I will make this city so desolate, and despised: that whoso goeth thereby, shall be abashed and jest upon her, because of all her plagues.

And all the people that go by this city, shall speak one to another: Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this noble city?

And all flesh shall see, that I the LORD have kindled it, so that no man may quench it.'"