Lamentations 2:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פָּצ֨וּ עָלַ֤יִךְ פִּיהֶם֙ כָּל־א֣וֹיְבַ֔יִךְ שָֽׁרְקוּ֙ וַיַּֽחַרְקוּ־שֵׁ֔ן אָמְר֖וּ בִּלָּ֑עְנוּ אַ֣ךְ זֶ֥ה הַיּ֛וֹם שֶׁקִּוִּינֻ֖הוּ מָצָ֥אנוּ רָאִֽינוּ׃

Transliteration

pāṣû upon-you pîhem all-ʾôyəḇayiḵ šārəqû and-wayyaḥarqû-šēn ʾāmərû billāʿnû surely this the-yôm that-šeqqiwwînuhû māṣāʾnû rāʾînû

Grammar Details

• *pāṣû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they have opened wide
• *ʿālayiḵ*: preposition + 2nd feminine singular suffix - against you
• *pîhem*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their mouth
• *kol-ʾôyəḇayiḵ*: noun, masculine singular construct + qal participle, masculine plural + 2nd feminine singular suffix - all your enemies
• *šārəqû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they have hissed
• *wayyaḥarqû-šēn*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural + noun, feminine singular - and they have gnashed teeth
• *ʾāmərû*: qal perfect, 3rd common plural - they have said
• *billāʿnû*: piel perfect, 1st common plural - we have swallowed her
• *ʾaḵ*: adverb - surely/indeed
• *zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
• *hayyôm*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the day
• *šeqqiwwînuhû*: relative particle + piel perfect, 1st common plural + 3rd masculine singular suffix - that we have waited for it
• *māṣāʾnû*: qal perfect, 1st common plural - we have found
• *rāʾînû*: qal perfect, 1st common plural - we have seen

Word Meanings

• *pāṣû*: open wide/gape
• *ʾôyəḇayiḵ*: enemies/foes/adversaries
• *šārəqû*: hiss/whistle (in mockery)
• *wayyaḥarqû-šēn*: gnash teeth/grind teeth
• *billāʿnû*: swallow up/devour/destroy
• *qiwwînuhû*: wait for/hope for/expect

Referenced Verses

• Ps 35:21 : 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said{H8804)}, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen{H8804)} it.
• Lam 3:46 : 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
• Job 16:9-9 : 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
• Ps 56:2 : 2 Mine enemies{H8802)} would daily swallow{H8804)} me up: for they be many that fight{H8802)} against me, O thou most High.
• Ps 22:13 : 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
• Ps 35:16 : 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
• Ps 37:12 : 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth{H8802)} upon him with his teeth.
• Ps 124:3 : 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
• Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
• Isa 49:19 : 19 For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
• Jer 50:7 : 7 All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
• Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
• Ps 41:8 : 8 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast{H8803)} unto him: and now that he lieth{H8804)} he shall rise up{H8800)} no more{H8686)}.
• Ps 57:3 : 3 He shall send{H8799)} from heaven, and save{H8686)} me from the reproach{H8765)} of him that would swallow me up{H8802)}. Selah. God shall send forth{H8799)} his mercy and his truth.
• Ps 109:2 : 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
• Ps 112:10 : 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.
• Ezek 25:3 : 3 And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;
• Ezek 25:6 : 6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
• Ezek 25:15 : 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
• Ezek 36:3 : 3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
• Hos 8:8 : 8 Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
• Obad 1:12-16 : 12 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. 13 Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity; 14 Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. 15 For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. 16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.
• Zeph 2:8-9 : 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. 9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them. 10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
• Acts 7:54 : 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.