Lamentations 2:16

New King James Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 109:2

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

Psalm 112:10

The wicked will see it and be grieved; He will gnash his teeth and melt away; The desire of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 124:3

Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;

Psalm 22:13

They gape at Me with their mouths, Like a raging and roaring lion.

Psalm 35:16

With ungodly mockers at feasts They gnashed at me with their teeth.

Psalm 35:21

They also opened their mouth wide against me, And said, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it.”

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, “Ah, so we would have it!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plots against the just, And gnashes at him with his teeth.

Psalm 41:8

“An evil disease,” they say, “clings to him. And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more.”

Psalm 56:2

My enemies would hound me all day, For there are many who fight against me, O Most High.

Psalm 57:3

He shall send from heaven and save me; He reproaches the one who would swallow me up. Selah God shall send forth His mercy and His truth.

Isaiah 49:19

“For your waste and desolate places, And the land of your destruction, Will even now be too small for the inhabitants; And those who swallowed you up will 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

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

Jeremiah 50:17

“Israel is like scattered sheep; The lions have driven him away. First the king of Assyria devoured him; Now at last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them have devoured them; And their adversaries said, ‘We have not offended, Because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice, The Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

Jeremiah 51:34

“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 monster; He has filled his stomach with my delicacies, He has spit me out.

Lamentations 1:21

“They have heard that I sigh, But no one comforts me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; They are glad that You have done it. Bring on the day You have announced, That they may 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, The deep and wide one; You shall be laughed to scorn And held in derision; It contains much.

Ezekiel 25:15

‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because the Philistines dealt vengefully and took vengeance with a spiteful heart, to destroy because of the old hatred,”

Ezekiel 25:3

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 desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity,

Ezekiel 25:6

‘For thus says the Lord God: “Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced in heart with all your disdain for the land of Israel,

Ezekiel 36:3

therefore prophesy, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered by the people”—

Ezekiel 5:15

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

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; Now they are among the Gentiles Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.

Micah 4:11

Now also many nations have gathered against you, Who say, “Let her be defiled, And let our eye look upon Zion.”

Acts 7:54

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