Lamentations 2:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

Cross References

Psalm 109:2

For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

Psalm 112:10

The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

Psalm 124:3

They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

Psalm 22:13

I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

Psalm 35:16

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Psalm 35:21

Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

Psalm 37:12

The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

Psalm 41:8

They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

Psalm 56:2

My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

Psalm 57:3

He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

Isaiah 49:19

For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

Jeremiah 26:6

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

Jeremiah 29:18

I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:7

They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.

Lamentations 1:21

Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

Lamentations 3:46

The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

Ezekiel 23:32

This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo.

Ezekiel 25:15

This is what the Lord has said: Because the Philistines have taken payment, with the purpose of causing shame and destruction with unending hate;

Ezekiel 25:3

And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you said, Aha! against my holy place when it was made unclean, and against the land of Israel when it was made waste, and against the people of Judah when they were taken away as prisoners;

Ezekiel 25:6

For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of joy with your hands, stamping your feet, and have been glad, putting shame with all your soul on the land of Israel;

Ezekiel 36:3

For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:

Ezekiel 5:15

And you will be a name of shame and a cause of bitter words, an example and a wonder to the nations round about you, when I give effect to my judging among you in wrath and in passion and in burning protests: I the Lord have said it:

Hosea 8:8

Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

Micah 4:11

And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

Acts 7:54

Hearing these things, they were cut to the heart and moved with wrath against him.