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Lamentations 2:16

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

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Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me: for my soul trusteth in thee. And in the shadow of thy wings will I hope, until iniquity pass away.

My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:

Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up: he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon: he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats and he hath cast me out.

For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth at him.

Israel is swallowed up: now is he become among the nations like an unclean vessel.

Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Because you have been desolate, and trodden under foot on every side, and made an inheritance to the rest of the nations, and are become the subject of the talk, and the reproach of the people:

Thus saith the Lord God: Because the Philistines have taken vengeance and have revenged themselves with all their mind, destroying and satisfying old enmities:

For thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast clapped thy hands and stamped with thy foot, and hast rejoiced with all thy heart against the land of Israel:

And thou shalt say to the children of Ammon: Hear ye the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast said: Ha, ha, upon my sanctuary, because it was profaned: and upon the land of Israel, because it was laid waste: and upon the house of Juda, because they are led into captivity:

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

All that found them have devoured them: and their enemies said: We have not sinned in so doing: because they have sinned against the Lord, the beauty of justice, and against the Lord the hope of their fathers.

For thy deserts and thy desolate places and the land of thy destruction shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants: and they that swallowed thee up shall be chased far away.

The Lord will send forth the sceptre of thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of thy enemies.

For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

And I will persecute them with the sword and with famine and with the pestilence: and I will give them up unto affliction to all the kingdoms of the earth: to be a curse and an astonishment and a hissing and a reproach to all the nations to which I have driven them out:

I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Sin. They have heard that I sigh, and there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my evil, they have rejoiced that thou hast done it. Thou hast brought a day of consolation, and they shall be like unto me.

And thou shalt be a reproach and a scoff, an example and an astonishment amongst the nations that are round about thee, when I shall have executed judgments in thee in anger and in indignation and in wrathful rebukes.

Thus saith the Lord God: Thou shalt drink thy sister's cup, deep and wide: thou shalt be had in derision and scorn, which containeth very much.

And now many nations are gathered together against thee, and they say: Let her be stoned: and let our eye look upon Sion.




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