Lamentations 2:16

Translations

Modern

All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”

Traditional

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.

Literal

They have opened their mouth against you—all your enemies; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say: “We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have awaited—we have found it, we have seen!”

Latin

Aperuerunt super te os suum omnes inimici tui: sibilaverunt, et fremuerunt dentibus, et dixerunt: Devorabimus: en ista est dies quam exspectabamus; invenimus, vidimus.

Original

Hebrew

English

All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”

Notes

Lamentations 2:16

Their enemies were glad that Jerusalem was defeated.

Lamentations 2:1–22

This chapter vividly shows the Lord acting as the one who destroys Jerusalem.

Related verses

Psalm 35:21
They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
Psalm 37:12
The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies open their mouths against us.
Psalm 56:2
My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
Job 16:9–10
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
Jeremiah 51:34
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
Psalm 22:13
They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
Psalm 35:16
Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
Psalm 124:3
…when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
Ezekiel 25:15
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
Psalm 41:8
“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”
Zephaniah 2:8–10
“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.

Glossary

Acrostic Lamentations, Book of Poetry, Biblical

Topics

Famine: Described Gnashing of Teeth: General Scriptures Concerning Teeth: Gnashing (Grinding) of, Usually Signifying Anger or Extreme Pain

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