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Lamentations 2:16

Modern King James Version

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; 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.

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And they widen their mouths against me; they say, Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen.

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

My watchers panted for me daily; for many are they who proudly fight against me.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth.

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me up like a jackal; he has filled his belly with good things; he has thrown me out;

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

with the hypocrites, mockers, for a cake, they gnashed on me with their teeth.

They opened wide their mouths on Me, like a ripping and a roaring lion.

And hearing these things, they were cut to their hearts. And they gnashed on him with their teeth.

Israel is swallowed up; now they shall be among the nations as a vessel in which there is no pleasure.

Therefore prophesy and say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Because of the wasting and crushing of you from all around, that you might be a possession to the rest of the nations, and you were lifted up on the tip of the tongue, and the talking of the people;

So says the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have taken vengeance; yes, have taken vengeance with spite in their soul, to destroy with never-ending enmity,

For so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped the foot, and rejoiced in heart with all your spite against the land of Israel;

And say to the Ammonites, Hear the Word of the Lord Jehovah. So says the Lord Jehovah: Because you said, Aha, against My sanctuary when it was defiled, and against the land of Israel when it was ruined, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity;

Israel is a scattered sheep, driven away by lions. First the king of Assyria devoured him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon crunched his bones.

All who have found them have devoured them. And their enemies said, We do not offend, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

For your wastes and your deserted places, and your land of ruins, shall even now be too narrow to dwell there, and they who swallowed you up shall be far away.

The wicked shall see and be vexed; he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked shall perish.

for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me; they spoke against me with a lying tongue.

He shall send from Heaven, and save me from the scorn of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth His mercy and His truth.

They say, A wicked thing is poured out on him, and he who lies down shall rise no more.

Let them not say in their hearts, Aha! Our Soul! Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague, and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and a waste, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them,

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

They hear that I sigh; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard my evil; they are glad that You have done it. You will bring the day that You have called, and they shall be like me.

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, a chastening and a horror to the nations which are all around you, when I shall execute judgments against you in anger and in fury and in rebukes among them. I Jehovah have spoken it.

So says the Lord Jehovah: You shall drink of your sister's cup deep and large; you shall be laughed to scorn and mocked; for it holds much.

Now also many nations are gathered against you, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion.




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