Lamentations 2:16

New American Bible - revised edition

They open their mouths against you, all your enemies; They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have devoured her! How we have waited for this day— we have lived to see it!”

Cross References

Psalm 109:2

O God, whom I praise, do not be silent, for wicked and treacherous mouths attack me. They speak against me with lying tongues;

Psalm 112:10

The wicked sees and is angry; gnashes his teeth and wastes away; the desire of the wicked come to nothing.

Psalm 124:3

Then they would have swallowed us alive, for their fury blazed against us.

Psalm 22:13

Many bulls surround me; fierce bulls of Bashan encircle me.

Psalm 35:16

without respect they mocked me, gnashed their teeth against me.

Psalm 35:21

They open wide their mouths against me. They say, “Aha! Good! Our eyes have seen it!”

Psalm 35:25

Do not let them say in their hearts, “Aha! Our soul!” Do not let them say, “We have devoured that one!”

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them;

Psalm 41:8

All those who hate me whisper together against me; they imagine the worst about me:

Psalm 56:2

Have mercy on me, God, for I am treated harshly; attackers press me all the day.

Psalm 57:3

I call to God Most High, to God who provides for me.

Isaiah 49:19

Though you were waste and desolate, a land of ruins, Now you shall be too narrow for your inhabitants, while those who swallowed you up will be far away.

Jeremiah 26:6

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

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with sword, famine, and pestilence, and make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, a desolation, a hissing, and a reproach to all the nations among which I have banished them,

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel was a stray sheep that lions pursued; The king of Assyria once devoured him; now Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon gnaws his bones.

Jeremiah 50:7

Whoever happened upon them devoured them; their enemies said, “We are not guilty, Because they sinned against the Lord, the abode of justice, the hope of their ancestors.”

Jeremiah 51:34

“He consumed me, defeated me, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; he left me like an empty vessel, Swallowed me like a sea monster, filled his belly with my delicacies and cast me out.

Lamentations 1:21

Hear how I am groaning; there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies hear of my misery and rejoice over what you have done. Bring on the day you proclaimed, and let them become like me!

Lamentations 3:46

They have opened their mouths against us, all our enemies;

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus says the Lord God: The cup of your sister you shall drink, deep and wide; It brings ridicule and mockery, it holds so much;

Ezekiel 25:15

Thus says the Lord God: Because the Philistines acted vengefully and exacted vengeance with intentional malice, destroying with undying hostility,

Ezekiel 25:3

Say to the Ammonites: Hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God: Because you jeered at my sanctuary when it was desecrated, at the land of Israel when it was destroyed, and at the house of Judah when they went into exile,

Ezekiel 25:6

For thus says the Lord God: Because you rejoiced over the land of Israel with scorn in your heart, clapping your hands and stamping your feet,

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: because you have been ridiculed and hounded on all sides for becoming a possession for the remaining nations and have become a byword and a popular jeer,

Ezekiel 5:15

And you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in angry wrath, with furious chastisements. I, the Lord, have spoken!

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations, like a useless vessel.

Micah 4:11

And now many nations are gathered against you! They say, “Let her be profaned, let our eyes see Zion’s downfall!”

Acts 7:54

When they heard this, they were infuriated, and they ground their teeth at him.