Lamentations 2:16 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Lamentations 2:16 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 2:16 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 2:16 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“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.””
Lamentations 2:16 — World English Bible
Lamentations 2:16 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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. ”
Lamentations 2:16 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 2:16 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed <FI>her<Fi> up, Surely this <FI>is<Fi> the day that we looked for, We have found--we have seen.'”
Lamentations 2:16 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 2:16 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen [it]. ”
Lamentations 2:16 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 2:16 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“All thine enemies haue opened their mouth against thee: they hisse and gnashe the teeth, saying, Let vs deuoure it: certainely this is the day that we looked for: we haue founde and seene it.”
Lamentations 2:16 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 2:16 in Context — Lamentations 2
14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
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.
17 The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
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What Does Lamentations 2:16 Mean?
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