Lamentations 2:16

Modern English Version

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! Certainly this is the day that we longed for; we have found it; we have seen it.”

Cross References

Psalm 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the deceitful have they opened against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalm 112:10

The wicked will see it and be angry; he will gnash his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

Psalm 124:3

then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Psalm 22:13

They open wide their mouths at me, like a raging and roaring lion.

Psalm 35:16

with hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed at me with their teeth.

Psalm 35:21

They opened wide their mouths against me, and said, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.”

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, we have our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him.

Psalm 41:8

They say, “An evil disease clings to him. And now that he lies down, he will not rise again.”

Psalm 56:2

My enemies would trample on me all day long, for there are many who fight against me, O Most High.

Psalm 57:3

He will send from heaven and save me; He will reproach him who tramples on me.   Selah God will send forth His mercy and His truth.

Isaiah 49:19

For your waste and your desolate places, and the land of your destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up shall be far away.

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.

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and an astonishment, a hissing and a reproach among all the nations where I have driven them,

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered flock. The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Jeremiah 50:7

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

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has cast me out.

Lamentations 1:21

They have heard my groaning, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have done it. Bring the day that You have announced, that they become like me.

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus says the Lord God: You shall drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and wide; you shall be laughed to scorn and held in derision; it contains much.

Ezekiel 25:15

Thus says the Lord God: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge and have taken vengeance with a spiteful heart to destroy with everlasting hatred,

Ezekiel 25:3

and say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God: Because you 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 Judah when they went into captivity,

Ezekiel 25:6

For thus says the Lord God: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced in heart with all your spite against the land of Israel,

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: For good reason they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side so that you might become a possession to the rest of the nations, and you have been taken up on the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people.

Ezekiel 5:15

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an astonishment to the nations that are all around you, when I execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken it.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

Micah 4:11

But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, “May she be defiled, and may our eyes gaze upon Zion.”

Acts 7:54

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart with rage, and they gnashed their teeth at him.