Lamentations 2:16
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!”
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.
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide 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.
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Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- thine
- Lamentations 3:46; Job 16:9, 10; Psalm 22:13; Psalm 35:21; Psalm 109:2
- gnash
- Psalm 35:16; Psalm 37:12; Psalm 112:10; Acts 7:54
- We have swallowed
- Psalm 56:2; Psalm 57:3; Psalm 124:3; Isaiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:7, 17; Jeremiah 51:34; Ezekiel 25:3, 6, 15; Ezekiel 36:3; Hosea 8:8; Zephaniah 2:8–10
- we have seen
- Psalm 35:21; Psalm 41:8; Obadiah 1:12–16