Lamentations 2:16

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: 1 They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, 1 And said, We have swallowed her up: 1 Moreover this is the day which we looked for; 1 We have found it, we have seen it. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

15All that go by the way 1 Have clapped their hands at thee; 1 They have hissed and shaken their head 1 At the daughter of Jerusalem. 1 Is this the city, they say, 1 The crown of joy of all the earth? 1

17The Lord has done that which he purposed; 1 He has accomplished his word, 1 Even the things which he commanded from the ancient days: 1 He has thrown down, and has not spared: 1 And he has caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, 1 He has exalted the horn of him that afflicted thee. 1

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Cross References

Job 16:9In his anger he has cast me down; 1 He has gnashed his teeth upon me: 1 The weapons of his robbers have fallen upon me. 1

Psalms 41:8Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: 1 All thy billows and thy waves have gone over me. 1

Psalms 57:3For ye work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: 1 Your hands plot unrighteousness. 1

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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