Lamentations 2:16

God's Word

All your enemies gawk at you. They hiss and grit their teeth. They say, ‘We’ve swallowed it up. Yes, this is the day we’ve been waiting for. At last we have seen it!’

Cross References

Psalm 109:2

Wicked and deceitful people have opened their mouths against me. They speak against me with lying tongues.

Psalm 112:10

The wicked person sees this and becomes angry. He angrily grits his teeth and disappears. The hope that wicked people have will vanish.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us alive when their anger exploded against us.

Psalm 22:13

They have opened their mouths to attack me like ferocious, roaring lions.

Psalm 35:16

With crude and abusive mockers, they grit their teeth at me.

Psalm 35:21

They open their big mouths and say about me, “Aha! Aha! Our own eyes have seen it.”

Psalm 35:25

or think, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 37:12

The wicked person plots against a righteous one and grits his teeth at him.

Psalm 41:8

“A devilish disease has attached itself to him. He will never leave his sickbed.”

Psalm 56:2

All day long my enemies spy on me. They harass me. There are so many fighting against me.

Psalm 57:3

He sends his help from heaven and saves me. He disgraces the one who is harassing me. Selah God sends his mercy and his truth!

Isaiah 49:19

Though you are destroyed and demolished and your land is in ruins, you will be too crowded for ⌞your⌟ people now. Those who devoured you will be long gone.

Jeremiah 26:6

Then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. I will turn this city into something that will be cursed by all the nations on earth.’ ”

Jeremiah 29:18

I will chase them with wars, famines, and plagues. I will make them a horrifying sight to all the kingdoms on the earth. They will become something cursed, ridiculed, and hissed at, and they will be a disgrace among all the nations where I scatter them.

Jeremiah 50:17

“The people of Israel are like scattered sheep that lions have chased. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria. The last to gnaw at their bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:7

Everyone who finds them eats them. Their enemies say, ‘We’re not guilty. They have sinned against the Lord, their true pasture. They have sinned against the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.’

Jeremiah 51:34

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured us. He has thrown us into confusion. He has turned us into empty jars. He has swallowed us like a monster. He has filled his belly with our delicacies. Then he spit us out.

Lamentations 1:21

“All my enemies have heard that I am groaning. No one offers me comfort. All my enemies have heard about my disaster. They are happy that you did it. You have allowed the day to come, the one that you had announced. Let my enemies be like me now.

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies gawk at us.

Ezekiel 23:32

This is what the Almighty Lord says: You will drink from your sister’s cup, a cup that is deep and wide. You will be scorned and mocked, because this cup holds so much.

Ezekiel 25:15

“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: The Philistines have taken revenge with spiteful hearts. They have tried to destroy their long-time enemies.

Ezekiel 25:3

Tell the Ammonites, ‘Listen to the Almighty Lord’s word. This is what the Almighty Lord says: You were glad when my holy place was dishonored, when the land of Israel was ruined, and when the nation of Judah went into exile.

Ezekiel 25:6

“ ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: You clapped your hands and stomped your feet. You rejoiced and felt contempt for the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 36:3

“So prophesy. Say, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: Your enemies turned you into ruins and crushed you from every side. You became the possession of the rest of the nations, and people began to talk and gossip about you.

Ezekiel 5:15

The nations that are around you will ridicule you and laugh at you. When I punish you because of my anger, fury, and fierce revenge, you will become something ridiculed and something horrible. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Hosea 8:8

Israel will be swallowed up. It has already mixed in with the other nations. It has become worthless.

Micah 4:11

But now many nations gather against you. They say, “Let’s dishonor Zion and gloat over it.”

Acts 7:54

As council members listened to Stephen, they became noticeably furious.