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Lamentaciones 2:16
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Han abierto contra ti su boca todos tus enemigos; silban y rechinan los dientes, dicen: La hemos devorado. Ciertamente este es el día que esperábamos; lo hemos alcanzado, lo hemos visto.
Todos tus enemigos abrieron contra ti su boca, silbaron, y rechinaron los dientes; dijeron: La hemos devorado; ciertamente �ste es el d�a que esper�bamos; lo hemos hallado, lo hemos visto.
Pe : Todos tus enemigos abrieron sobre ti su boca; y silbaron, y rechinaron los dientes; dijeron: Devoremos; cierto �ste es el d�a que esper�bamos; lo hemos hallado, lo hemos visto.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thine: Lamentations 3:46, Job 16:9, Job 16:10, Psalms 22:13, Psalms 35:21, Psalms 109:2
gnash: Psalms 35:16, Psalms 37:12, Psalms 112:10, Acts 7:54
We have swallowed: Psalms 56:2, Psalms 57:3, Psalms 124:3, Isaiah 49:19, Jeremiah 50:7, Jeremiah 50:17, Jeremiah 51:34, Ezekiel 25:3, Ezekiel 25:6, Ezekiel 25:15, Ezekiel 36:3, Hosea 8:8, Zephaniah 2:8-10
we have seen: Psalms 35:21, Psalms 41:8, Obadiah 1:12-16
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 20:19 - swallow 1 Kings 9:7 - and Israel 1 Kings 9:9 - Because 2 Chronicles 7:20 - a proverb 2 Chronicles 7:22 - Because they forsook Job 5:5 - swalloweth Job 20:18 - swallow Psalms 35:25 - We have Psalms 56:1 - swallow Psalms 74:23 - tumult Psalms 79:4 - become Psalms 137:3 - For there Proverbs 1:12 - swallow Isaiah 57:4 - draw Jeremiah 15:5 - For who Jeremiah 18:16 - a perpetual Jeremiah 19:8 - General Jeremiah 29:18 - to be a curse Jeremiah 33:24 - thus Jeremiah 44:8 - a curse Jeremiah 44:22 - your land Jeremiah 49:17 - shall hiss Jeremiah 50:11 - ye were Jeremiah 50:13 - every Jeremiah 51:37 - an hissing Lamentations 1:7 - the adversaries Lamentations 2:15 - they Ezekiel 20:48 - General Ezekiel 22:4 - have I Ezekiel 23:32 - thou shalt be Ezekiel 24:10 - spice Daniel 9:16 - Jerusalem Micah 4:11 - many Habakkuk 1:15 - therefore Zechariah 8:13 - a curse Romans 2:24 - the name
Gill's Notes on the Bible
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee,.... Or "widened" x them; stretched them out as far as they could, to reproach, blaspheme, and insult; or, like gaping beasts, to swallow up and devour:
they hiss and gnash their teeth; hiss like serpents, and gnash their teeth in wrath and fury; all expressing their extreme hatred and abhorrence of the Jews, and the delight they took in their ruin and destruction:
they say, we have swallowed [her] up; all her wealth and riches were corns into their hands, and were all their own; as well as they thought these were all their own doings, owing to their wisdom and skill, courage and strength; not seeing and knowing the hand of God in all this. These words seem to be the words of the Chaldeans particularly:
certainly this [is] the day that we have looked for; we have found, we have seen [it]: this day of Jerusalem's destruction, which they had long looked for, and earnestly desired; and now it was come; and they had what they so much wished for; and express it with the utmost pleasure. In this verse the order of the alphabet is not observed the letter פ, "pe", being set before the letter ע, "ain", which should be first, according to the constant order of the alphabet; and which was so before the times of Jeremiah, even in David's time, as appears by the ninety ninth Psalm, and others. Grotius thinks it is after the manner of the Chaldeans; but the order of the Hebrew and Chaldee alphabets is the same Dr Lightfoot thinks y the prophet, by this charge, hints at the seventy years that Jerusalem should be desolate, which were now begun; the letter ע, "ain", in numbers, denoting seventy. So Mr. Bedford z, who observes, that the transposition of these letters seems to show the confusion in which the prophet was, when he considered that this captivity should last seventy years. Jarchi a says one is put before the other, because they spoke with their mouths what they saw not with their eyes; "pe" signifying the mouth, and "ain" an eye.
x פצו "dilatant", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. y Vol. 1. p. 129. z Scripture Chronology, p. 685. a E Talmud Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 104. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Seen it - Omit “it.” The intensity of the enemy’s exultation is shown by the heaping up of unconnected words. We have found what we sought, have seen what we looked for.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 16. This is the day that we looked for — Jerusalem was the envy of the surrounding nations: they longed for its destruction, and rejoiced when it took place.
