Lamentations 2:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁶ Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into light.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ All your enemies have opened wide their mouths against you; they scornfully hiss and gnash their teeth. They cry, We have swallowed her up! Certainly this is the day we have looked for; we have it, we see it!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ All your enemies open wide their mouths against you; they whistle, grinding their teeth. They say, “We have devoured! This is definitely the day we’ve been waiting for. We’ve seen it come to pass.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: "We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it."

Lamentations 2:16 Cross References

Psalm 109:2

May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

Psalm 112:10

Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill::

Psalm 124:3

in Jerusalem. Mountains are round about it: so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth now and for ever.

Psalm 22:13

0 Deliver, O God, my soul from the sword: my only one from the hand of the dog.

Psalm 35:16

3 Arise, and be attentive to my judgment : to my cause, my God, and my Lord.

Psalm 35:21

8 Any my tongue shall meditate thy justice, thy praise all the day long.

Psalm 35:25

He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good : but evil he hath not hated.

Psalm 37:12

9 They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be filled :

Psalm 41:8

My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?

Psalm 56:2

Then shall my enemies be turned back. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, behold I know thou art my God.

Psalm 57:3

0 For thy mercy is magnified even to the heavens: and thy truth unto the clouds.

Isaiah 49:19

THUS saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Jeremiah 26:6

4 But as for me, behold I am in your hands: do with me what is good and right in your eyes:

Jeremiah 29:18

6 The Lord hath made thee priest in- stead of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.

Jeremiah 50:17

5 The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his wrath : for the Lord the God of hosts hath a work to be done in the land of the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 50:7

5 Shout against her, she hath every where given her hand, her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down, for it is the vengeance of the Lord. Take vengeance upon her: as she hath done, so do to her.

Jeremiah 51:34

2 The sea is come up over Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

Lamentations 1:21

Zain. The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath cursed his sanctuary: he hath delivered the walls of the towers thereof into the hand of the enemy: they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

Lamentations 3:46

4 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

Ezekiel 23:32

0 They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women's ornaments.

Ezekiel 25:15

Her daughters also that are in the field, shall be slain by the sword: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:3

1 And I will execute judgments in Moab: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 25:6

4 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to my wrath, and my fury: and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 36:3

1 And I will make you abound with men and with beasts: and they shall be multiplied, and increased: and I will settle you as from the beginning, and will give you greater gifts, than you had from the beginning: and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 5:15

In all your dwelling places. The cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be thrown down, and destroyed, and your altars shall be abolished, and shall be broken in pieces: and your idols shall be no more, and your temples shall be destroyed, and your works shall be defaced.

Hosea 8:8

The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the wine shall deceive them.

Micah 4:11

And they shall feed the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nemrod with the spears thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our borders.

Acts 7:54

And devout men took order for Stephen's funeral, and made great mourning over him.