Lamentations 2:16
New International Version
All your enemies open their mouths wide against you; they scoff and gnash their teeth and say, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it.”

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!”

English Standard Version
All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”

Berean Standard Bible
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!”

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have waited for; We have found it, we have seen it!

New American Standard Bible
All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have engulfed her! This certainly is the day which we awaited; We have reached it, we have seen it!

NASB 1995
All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day for which we waited; We have reached it, we have seen it.”

NASB 1977
All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day for which we waited; We have reached it, we have seen it.

Legacy Standard Bible
All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day for which we have hoped; We have found it, we have seen it.”

Amplified Bible
All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They [scornfully] hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up! Certainly this is the day for which we waited; We have reached it, we have seen it!”

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

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

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Ayin LORD JEHOVAH has done the thing that he planned and he has fulfilled his word, as he commanded from the first days. He has destroyed her and he had no pity, and the enemy rejoiced over you and he lifted up the horn of your oppressors

Brenton Septuagint Translation
AIN. All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen it.

Contemporary English Version
Zion, your enemies curse you and snarl like wild animals, while shouting, "This is the day we've waited for! At last, we've got you!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow her up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
All your enemies gawk at you. They hiss and grit their teeth. They say, 'We've swallowed it up. Yes, this is the day we've been waiting for. At last we have seen it!'

Good News Translation
All your enemies mock you and glare at you with hate. They curl their lips and sneer, "We have destroyed it! This is the day we have waited for!"

International Standard Version
All of your enemies insult you with gaping mouths. They hiss and grind their teeth while saying, "We have devoured her completely. Yes, this is the day that we anticipated! We found it at last; we have seen it!"

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.'

Literal Standard Version
Opened against you their mouth have all your enemies, | They have hissed, indeed, they gnash the teeth, | They have said: “We have swallowed [her] up, | Surely this [is] the day that we looked for, | We have found—we have seen.”

Majority Standard Bible
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!”

New American Bible
They open their mouths against you, all your enemies; They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have devoured her! How we have waited for this day— we have lived to see it!”

NET Bible
All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said, "We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!"

New Revised Standard Version
All your enemies open their mouths against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have devoured her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; at last we have seen it!”

New Heart English Bible
All your enemies have opened wide their mouth against you. 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."

Webster's Bible Translation
All thy 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.

World English Bible
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.”

Young's Literal Translation
Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: 'We have swallowed her up, Surely this is the day that we looked for, We have found -- we have seen.'

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
God's Anger over Jerusalem
15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?” 16All 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!” 17The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.…

Cross References
Job 16:9
His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

Job 16:10
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

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 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, "Aha, just what we wanted!" Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up!"

Psalm 37:12
The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

Psalm 56:2
My enemies pursue me all day long, for many proudly assail me.


Treasury of Scripture

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: 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.

thine

Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Job 16:9,10
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me…

Psalm 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

gnash

Psalm 35:16
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Psalm 37:12
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

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.

we have swallowed

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. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Psalm 124:3
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

we have seen

Psalm 35:21
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Psalm 41:8
An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

Obadiah 1:12-16
But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress…

Jump to Previous
Ah Cry Destroyed Enemies Found Gnash Haters Hiss Hisses Longed Making Meal Mouth Mouths Open Opened Rail Reached Scoff Surely Swallowed Teeth Waited Whistling Wide
Jump to Next
Ah Cry Destroyed Enemies Found Gnash Haters Hiss Hisses Longed Making Meal Mouth Mouths Open Opened Rail Reached Scoff Surely Swallowed Teeth Waited Whistling Wide
Lamentations 2
1. Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem
20. He complains thereof to God














(16) All thine enemies.--The exultation of the enemies is expressed by every feature in the physiognomy of malignant hate, the wide mouth, the hissing, the gnashing of the teeth. They exult, as in half-broken utterances, in the thought that they have brought about the misery at which they mock. It is what they had long looked for; they had at last seen it.

Verses 16, 17. - On the transposition of the initial letters in these verses, see Introduction. Verse 16. - Have opened their mouth against thee. As against the innocent sufferer of Psalm 22. (ver. 13). Gnash the teeth. In token of rage, as Psalm 35:16; Psalm 37:12. We have seen it (comp. Psalm 35:21).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
All
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

your enemies
א֣וֹיְבַ֔יִךְ (’ō·wy·ḇa·yiḵ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary

open
פָּצ֨וּ (pā·ṣū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6475: To rend, open

their mouths
פִּיהֶם֙ (pî·hem)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

against you.
עָלַ֤יִךְ (‘ā·la·yiḵ)
Preposition | second person feminine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

They hiss
שָֽׁרְקוּ֙ (šā·rə·qū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 8319: To be shrill, to whistle, hiss

and gnash
וַיַּֽחַרְקוּ־ (way·ya·ḥar·qū-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2786: To grate the teeth

their teeth,
שֵׁ֔ן (šên)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 8127: A tooth, ivory, a cliff

saying,
אָמְר֖וּ (’ā·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“We have swallowed her up.
בִּלָּ֑עְנוּ (bil·lā·‘ə·nū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 1104: To swallow down, swallow up, engulf

This
זֶ֥ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

is the day
הַיּ֛וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

for which we have waited.
שֶׁקִּוִּינֻ֖הוּ (šeq·qiw·wî·nu·hū)
Pronoun - relative | Verb - Piel - Perfect - first person common plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6960: To bind together, collect, to expect

We have lived
מָצָ֥אנוּ (mā·ṣā·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

to see it!”
רָאִֽינוּ׃ (rā·’î·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's 7200: To see


Links
Lamentations 2:16 NIV
Lamentations 2:16 NLT
Lamentations 2:16 ESV
Lamentations 2:16 NASB
Lamentations 2:16 KJV

Lamentations 2:16 BibleApps.com
Lamentations 2:16 Biblia Paralela
Lamentations 2:16 Chinese Bible
Lamentations 2:16 French Bible
Lamentations 2:16 Catholic Bible

OT Prophets: Lamentations 2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth (Lam. La Lm)
Lamentations 2:15
Top of Page
Top of Page