Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies open their mouths against you. 1 They sneer and grind their teeth in rage and say, “We have swallowed her up! 1 This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it!” 1

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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 along the road clap their hands at you. 1 They hiss and shake their heads against the daughter of Jerusalem and say, 1 “Is this the city that they called 'The Perfection of Beauty,' 'The Joy for All of Earth'?” 1

17Yahweh has done what he planned to do. He has fulfilled his word. 1 He has overthrown you without pity, 1 for he has permitted the enemy to rejoice over you; he has lifted up the horn of your enemies. 1

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Cross References

Job 16:9God has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me; 1 He grinds his teeth in rage; 1 my enemy fastens his eyes on me as he tears me apart. 1

Psalms 35:16With no respect at all they mocked me; 1 they grind their teeth at me in rage. 1

Psalms 35:25Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, we have what we wanted.” 1 Do not let them say, “We have devoured him.” 1

Psalms 41:8They say, “An evil disease holds on tightly to him; 1 now that he is lying down, he will rise up no more.” 1

Psalms 57:3He will send help from heaven and save me, 1 he is angry with those who crush me. Selah 1 God will send me his loving kindness and his faithfulness. 1

Psalms 112:10The wicked person will see this and be angry; 1 he will grind his teeth in rage and he will melt away; 1 the desire of the wicked people will perish.

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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