Lamentations 2:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow her up. Lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.

Lamentations 2:16 Cross References

Psalm 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

Psalm 112:10

The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 124:3

Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us:

Psalm 22:13

They gape upon me with their mouth, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psalm 35:16

Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalm 35:21

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Psalm 41:8

An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: And now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

Psalm 56:2

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long: For they be many that fight proudly against me.

Psalm 57:3

He shall send from heaven, and save me, When he that would swallow me up reproacheth; Selah God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Isaiah 49:19

For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Jeremiah 26:6

then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 29:18

And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

Jeremiah 50:7

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his maw with my delicates; he hath cast me out.

Lamentations 1:21

They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

Lamentations 3:46

all our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus saith the Lord GOD Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup, which is deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

Ezekiel 25:15

Thus saith the Lord GOD Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy it with perpetual enmity;

Ezekiel 25:3

and say unto the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord GOD Thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

Ezekiel 25:6

For thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of thy soul against the land of Israel;

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people:

Ezekiel 5:15

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgements in thee in anger and in fury, and in furious rebukes: I the LORD have spoken it:

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

Micah 4:11

And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see its desire upon Zion.

Acts 7:54

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.