Verse 16
Lamentations 2:16
New King James Version
16
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
פָּצ֨וּ עָלַ֤יִ/ךְ פִּי/הֶם֙ כָּל א֣וֹיְבַ֔יִ/ךְ שָֽׁרְקוּ֙ וַ/יַּֽחַרְקוּ שֵׁ֔ן אָמְר֖וּ בִּלָּ֑עְנוּ אַ֣ךְ זֶ֥ה הַ/יּ֛וֹם שֶׁ/קִּוִּינֻ֖/הוּ מָצָ֥אנוּ רָאִֽינוּ
English Translation
"All your enemies have opened their mouths against you, they hissed and gnashed their teeth; they said, 'We have swallowed her up; this is the day that we hoped for; we have found it, we have seen it.'"
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Chapter 2 Context
1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger,
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2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in...
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3
He hath cut off in
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4
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all
that...
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5
The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath...
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6
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as
if it were of
a garden: he hath destroyed his p...
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7
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of...
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8
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he...
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9
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes...
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10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
and
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11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the des...
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12
They say to their mothers, Where
is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets o...
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13
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusal...
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14
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity...
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15
All that pass by clap
their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem...
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16
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We...
17
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18
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day...
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19
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20
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit,
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21
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22
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