Lamentations 2:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!””
Read Lamentations 2:16 in the flow of Lamentations2 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Lamentations2 to see the surrounding context.
“All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide 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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed <FI>her<Fi> up, Surely this <FI>is<Fi> the day that we looked for, We have found--we have seen.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Lamentations 2:16 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
- Psalms 22:13They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
- Psalms 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Psalms 35:21They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
- Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”
- Psalms 37:12The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- Psalms 41:8“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”
- Psalms 56:2My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
- Psalms 57:3He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
- Psalms 109:2For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.
- Psalms 112:10The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
- Psalms 124:3when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
- Isaiah 49:19For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
- Jeremiah 26:6then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”
- Jeremiah 50:7All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
- Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
- Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
- Lamentations 1:21People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.
- Lamentations 3:46All our enemies open their mouths against us.
- Ezekiel 5:15So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- Ezekiel 23:32This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
- Ezekiel 25:3Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,
- Ezekiel 25:6For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,
- Ezekiel 25:15This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
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