Lamentations 2:16 “All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash th…”

Lamentations 2:16

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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

All thine enemies haue opened their mouth against thee: they hisse and gnashe the teeth, saying, Let vs deuoure it: certainely this is the day that we looked for: we haue founde and seene it.

Darby Translation

All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen [it].

Young's Literal Translation

Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: 'We have swallowed [her] up, Surely this [is] the day that we looked for, We have found — we have seen.'

Bible in Basic English

All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

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Cross references

“thine”

Psalm 35:21 Lamentations 3:46 Psalm 22:13 Psalm 109:2 Job 16:9 Job 16:10

Psalm 35:21 · BSB

They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”

Lamentations 3:46 · BSB

All our enemies open their mouths against us.

Psalm 22:13 · BSB

They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

Psalm 109:2 · BSB

For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

Job 16:9 · BSB

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

Job 16:10 · BSB

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

“gnash”

Psalm 37:12 Psalm 35:16 Psalm 112:10 Acts 7:54

Psalm 37:12 · BSB

The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

Psalm 35:16 · BSB

Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Psalm 112:10 · BSB

The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.

Acts 7:54 · BSB

On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.

“We have swallowed”

Psalm 56:2 Psalm 124:3 Jeremiah 51:34 Psalm 57:3 Isaiah 49:19 Jeremiah 50:7

Psalm 56:2 · BSB

My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.

Psalm 124:3 · BSB

when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,

Jeremiah 51:34 · BSB

“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.

Psalm 57:3 · BSB

He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.

Isaiah 49:19 · BSB

For 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 50:7 · BSB

All 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.’

“we have seen”

Psalm 41:8 Obadiah 1:12–16

Psalm 41:8 · BSB

“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”

Obadiah 1:12–16 · BSB

But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

17The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

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