Lamentations 2:16

Word of Yahweh

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: 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 it.

Cross References

Psalm 109:2

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

Psalm 112:10

The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 124:3

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Psalm 22:13

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

Psalm 35:16

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalm 35:21

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Psalm 35:25

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psalm 37:12

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Psalm 41:8

An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

Psalm 56:2

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

Psalm 57:3

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. Elohim shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Isaiah 49:19

For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Jeremiah 26:6

Then will I 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 persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

Jeremiah 50:7

All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of justice, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

Lamentations 1:21

They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Ezekiel 23:32

Thus saith the Sovereign Yahweh; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

Ezekiel 25:15

Thus saith the Sovereign Yahweh; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;

Ezekiel 25:3

And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Sovereign Yahweh; Thus saith the Sovereign Yahweh; Because thou saidst, 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 saith the Sovereign Yahweh; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;

Ezekiel 36:3

Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Sovereign Yahweh; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

Ezekiel 5:15

So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I Yahweh have spoken it.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

Micah 4:11

Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

Acts 7:54

When they heard these things, they were enraged, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.