Lamentations 2:16

Opened against you their mouth have all your enemies, || They have hissed, indeed, 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.”

Literal Standard Version

In The 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.

In Context

15Everyone passing by the way clapped hands at you, || They have hissed—and they shake the head || At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?”

17YHWH has done that which He devised, || He has fulfilled His saying || That He commanded from the days of old, || He has broken down and has not pitied, || And causes an enemy to rejoice over you, || He lifted up the horn of your adversaries.

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Cross References

Job 16:9His anger has torn, and He hates me, || He has gnashed at me with His teeth, || My adversary sharpens His eyes for me.

Psalms 35:16With profane ones, mockers in feasts, || Gnashing their teeth against me.

Psalms 35:25They do not say in their heart, “Aha, our desire.” They do not say, “We swallowed him up.”

Psalms 41:8A worthless thing is poured out on him, || And because he lay down he does not rise again.

Psalms 57:3He sends from the heavens, and saves me, || He reproached [the one] who is panting after me. Selah. God sends forth His kindness and His truth.

Psalms 112:10The wicked sees, and has been angry, || He gnashes his teeth, and has melted, || The desire of the wicked perishes!

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 2:11-22

Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn… Read the whole commentary →

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