Lamentations 2:16

New Living Translation

All your enemies mock you. They scoff and snarl and say, “We have destroyed her at last! We have long waited for this day, and it is finally here!”

Cross References

Psalm 109:2

while the wicked slander me and tell lies about me.

Psalm 112:10

The wicked will see this and be infuriated. They will grind their teeth in anger; they will slink away, their hopes thwarted.

Psalm 124:3

They would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger.

Psalm 22:13

Like lions they open their jaws against me, roaring and tearing into their prey.

Psalm 35:16

They mock me and call me names; they snarl at me.

Psalm 35:21

They shout, “Aha! Aha! With our own eyes we saw him do it!”

Psalm 35:25

Don’t let them say, “Look, we got what we wanted! Now we will eat him alive!”

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plot against the godly; they snarl at them in defiance.

Psalm 41:8

“He has some fatal disease,” they say. “He will never get out of that bed!”

Psalm 56:2

I am constantly hounded by those who slander me, and many are boldly attacking me.

Psalm 57:3

He will send help from heaven to rescue me, disgracing those who hound me. Interlude My God will send forth his unfailing love and faithfulness.

Isaiah 49:19

“Even the most desolate parts of your abandoned land will soon be crowded with your people. Your enemies who enslaved you will be far away.

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will destroy this Temple as I destroyed Shiloh, the place where the Tabernacle was located. And I will make Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth.’”

Jeremiah 29:18

Yes, I will pursue them with war, famine, and disease, and I will scatter them around the world. In every nation where I send them, I will make them an object of damnation, horror, contempt, and mockery.

Jeremiah 50:17

“The Israelites are like sheep that have been scattered by lions. First the king of Assyria ate them up. Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon cracked their bones.”

Jeremiah 50:7

All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong in attacking them, for they sinned against the Lord, their true place of rest, and the hope of their ancestors.’

Jeremiah 51:34

“King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has eaten and crushed us and drained us of strength. He has swallowed us like a great monster and filled his belly with our riches. He has thrown us out of our own country.

Lamentations 1:21

“Others heard my groans, but no one turned to comfort me. When my enemies heard about my troubles, they were happy to see what you had done. Oh, bring the day you promised, when they will suffer as I have suffered.

Lamentations 3:46

“All our enemies have spoken out against us.

Ezekiel 23:32

“Yes, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “You will drink from your sister’s cup of terror, a cup that is large and deep. It is filled to the brim with scorn and derision.

Ezekiel 25:15

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The people of Philistia have acted against Judah out of bitter revenge and long-standing contempt.

Ezekiel 25:3

Give the Ammonites this message from the Sovereign Lord: Hear the word of the Sovereign Lord! Because you cheered when my Temple was defiled, mocked Israel in her desolation, and laughed at Judah as she went away into exile,

Ezekiel 25:6

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you clapped and danced and cheered with glee at the destruction of my people,

Ezekiel 36:3

Therefore, son of man, give the mountains of Israel this message from the Sovereign Lord: Your enemies have attacked you from all directions, making you the property of many nations and the object of much mocking and slander.

Ezekiel 5:15

You will become an object of mockery and taunting and horror. You will be a warning to all the nations around you. They will see what happens when the Lord punishes a nation in anger and rebukes it, says the Lord.

Hosea 8:8

The people of Israel have been swallowed up; they lie among the nations like an old discarded pot.

Micah 4:11

Now many nations have gathered against you. “Let her be desecrated,” they say. “Let us see the destruction of Jerusalem.”

Acts 7:54

The Jewish leaders were infuriated by Stephen’s accusation, and they shook their fists at him in rage.