Lamentations 2:16

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee; 1 they hiss and gnash their teeth; 1 they cry: We have swallowed her! 1 This is the Yom that we waited for; 1 we have found, we have seen it. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 pass by clap their hands at thee; 1 they hiss and wag their head at Bat Yerushalayim, 1 saying: Is this the Ir that men call 1 Kelilat Yofi Masos L'Khol HaAretz 1 (perfection in beauty, the joy of the whole earth)? 1

17Hashem hath done that which He had devised; 1 He hath fulfilled His word 1 that He decreed in the yemai kedem; 1 He hath overthrown, and hath not pitied, 1 and He hath caused thine oyev to gloat over thee, 1 He hath exalted the keren of thine adversaries. 1

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Cross References

Job 16:9He teareth me in his wrath, who warreth against me; 1 He gnasheth upon me with His shinayim (teeth); 1 mine adversary sharpeneth His eyes against me. 1

Psalms 35:16Like chanef (hypocritical) mockers at cake, 1 they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 1

Psalms 35:25Let them not say in their lev, 1 Ah, so would we have it; 1 let them not say, 1 We have swallowed him up. 1

Psalms 41:8All that hate me whisper together against me; 1 against me do they devise my hurt. 1

Psalms 57:3I will cry out unto Elohim Elyon; 1 unto El that fulfilleth all things for me. 1

Psalms 112:10The rasha shall see it, and be incensed; 1 he shall gnash his teeth, and waste away; 1 the ta'avot resha'im (desire of the wicked ones) shall come to nothing.

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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