Lamentations 2:16

Now all our enemies scoff [IDM] at you; they hiss/sneer at you and gnash their teeth to show that they hate you. They say, “We have destroyed them! This is what we longed/waited for, and now it has happened!”

Translation for Translators

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 those who pass by you make fun of [IDM] you; they shake their heads and they hiss/sneer at you. They say, “Is this that great city of Jerusalem? Is it the city that was the most beautiful city in the world, the city that caused all the people on the earth to be joyful?”

17Yahweh has done what he planned; long ago he threatened to destroy you, and now he has done it. He has destroyed your city without acting mercifully toward you; he has enabled your enemies to he happy about defeating you; he has enabled your enemies to continually become stronger.

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Cross References

Job 16:9Because God is very angry with me and hates me, it is as though he is a wild animal that [MET] has gnashed his teeth at me because he is my enemy.

Psalms 35:16Worthless people ridicule me and snarl at me.

Psalms 35:25Do not allow them to be able to say to themselves, “Yes, we have gotten rid of him [IDM] just like we desired!”

Psalms 41:8They say, “He will soon die because of his being sick; he will never get up from his bed before he dies.”

Psalms 57:3You will answer me from heaven and rescue me, but you will cause those who oppress me to be defeated and disgraced! (Think about that!) God will always faithfully love me and ◄will be faithful/will do what he promises►.

Psalms 112:10Wicked people see those things and are angry; they gnash their teeth angrily, but they will disappear and die. The wicked things that they want to do will never happen.

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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