Lamentations 2:16

New International Version

All your enemies open their mouths wide against you; they scoff and gnash their teeth and say, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it.”

Cross References

Psalm 109:2

for people who are wicked and deceitful have opened their mouths against me; they have spoken against me with lying tongues.

Psalm 112:10

The wicked will see and be vexed, they will gnash their teeth and waste away; the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.

Psalm 124:3

they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us;

Psalm 22:13

Roaring lions that tear their prey open their mouths wide against me.

Psalm 35:16

Like the ungodly they maliciously mocked; they gnashed their teeth at me.

Psalm 35:21

They sneer at me and say, “Aha! Aha! With our own eyes we have seen it.”

Psalm 35:25

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

Psalm 37:12

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

Psalm 41:8

“A vile disease has afflicted him; he will never get up from the place where he lies.”

Psalm 56:2

My adversaries pursue me all day long; in their pride many are attacking me.

Psalm 57:3

He sends from heaven and saves me, rebuking those who hotly pursue me— God sends forth his love and his faithfulness.

Isaiah 49:19

“Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse among all the nations of the earth.’ ”

Jeremiah 29:18

I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them.

Jeremiah 50:17

“Israel is a scattered flock that lions have chased away. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria; the last to crush their bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”

Jeremiah 50:7

Whoever found them devoured them; their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they sinned against the Lord, their verdant pasture, the Lord, the hope of their ancestors.’

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured us, he has thrown us into confusion, he has made us an empty jar. Like a serpent he has swallowed us and filled his stomach with our delicacies, and then has spewed us out.

Lamentations 1:21

“People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me.

Lamentations 3:46

“All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.

Ezekiel 23:32

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: “You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup large and deep; it will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.

Ezekiel 25:15

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance and took revenge with malice in their hearts, and with ancient hostility sought to destroy Judah,

Ezekiel 25:3

Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you said “Aha!” over my sanctuary when it was desecrated and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile,

Ezekiel 25:6

For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel,

Ezekiel 36:3

Therefore prophesy and say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because they ravaged and crushed you from every side so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations and the object of people’s malicious talk and slander,

Ezekiel 5:15

You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the Lord have spoken.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like something no one wants.

Micah 4:11

But now many nations are gathered against you. They say, “Let her be defiled, let our eyes gloat over Zion!”

Acts 7:54

When the members of the Sanhedrin heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him.