Lamentations 2:16

A Conservative Version

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.

Cross References

Psalm 35:21

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

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Psalm 56:2

My enemies would swallow me up all the day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Psalm 37:12

The wicked man plots against the righteous man, and gnashes upon him with his teeth.

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us,

Psalm 35:16

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

Psalm 22:13

They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

Acts 7:54

Now when they heard these things, they were split with a saw in their hearts, and they gnashed their teeth against him.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up. They are now among the nations as a vessel in which no man delights.

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips o

Ezekiel 25:15

Thus says lord LORD: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with spite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity,

Ezekiel 25:6

For thus says lord LORD: Because thou have clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the spite of thy soul against the land of Israel,

Ezekiel 25:3

And say to the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of lord LORD. Thus says lord LORD: Because thou said, Aha, against my sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Ju

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a hunted sheep, the lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them, and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against LORD, the habitation of righteousness, even LORD, the hope of their fathers.

Isaiah 49:19

For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that has been destroyed, surely now thou shall be too narrow for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Psalm 112:10

A wicked man shall see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of wicked men shall perish.

Psalm 109:2

for they have opened against me the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

Psalm 57:3

He will send from heaven, and save me [from] the reproach of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God will send forth his loving kindness and his truth.

Psalm 41:8

An evil disease, [they say], clings firm to him. And now that he lays he shall rise up no more.

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.

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 a hissing, and

Jeremiah 26:6

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

Lamentations 1:21

They have heard that I sigh. There is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that thou have done it. Thou will bring the day that thou have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

Ezekiel 5:15

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, a lesson and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments on thee in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes--I, LORD, have spoken it--

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus says lord LORD: Thou shall drink of thy sister's cup, which is deep and large. Thou shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision. It contains much.

Micah 4:11

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