Lamentations 2:16

Enemies open their mouths wide, gloating that they have swallowed her and seen the day they longed for. It shows the foe's triumphant cruelty over Zion's fall.

Cross-references · 24

• Ps 35:21They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!”
• Lam 3:46All our enemies open their mouths against us.
• Ps 37:12The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
• Ps 56:2My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.
• Job 16:9–10His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
• Ps 35:16Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
• Jer 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.
• Ps 124:3when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
• Ps 22:13They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
• Jer 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
• Ps 41:8“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”
• Zeph 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.
• Jer 50:7All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
• Ezek 36:3therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
• Ps 112:10The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
• Ezek 25:3Tell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,
• Ezek 25:6For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,
• Isa 49:19For your ruined and desolate places and your ravaged land will now indeed be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.
• Acts 7:54On hearing this, the members of the Sanhedrin were enraged, and they gnashed their teeth at him.
• Hos 8:8Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like a worthless vessel.
• Obad 1:12–16But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
• Ezek 25:15This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
• Ps 57:3He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
• Ps 109:2For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues.

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