Lamentations 2:16

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which no one delights? Why are they cast out, he and his offspring, and cast into a land which they don’t know?

He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”

Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?

“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because the enemy has said against you, “Aha!” and, “The ancient high places are ours in possession!” ’

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and there won’t be room enough for them.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!”

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first fruits of his increase. All who devour him will be held guilty. Evil will come on them,” ’ says Yahweh.”

Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’

I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.

the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and taken revenge on them;”

The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.

This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, to your tents.

He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

Whom do you mock? Against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience and offspring of falsehood,

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke. Because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing has come on you.

Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her. Spare no arrows; for she has sinned against Yahweh.

“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, “Alas!” Because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they will fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.” ’

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

“For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been destroyed, surely now that land will be too small for the inhabitants, and those who swallowed you up will be far away.

All who found them have devoured them. Their adversaries said, ‘We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.’

“Israel is a hunted sheep. The lions have driven him away. First, the king of Assyria devoured him, and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.”

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

Heap on the wood. Make the fire hot. Boil the meat well. Make the broth thick, and let the bones be burned.

Tell the children of Ammon, ‘Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! The Lord Yahweh says, “Because you said, ‘Aha!’ against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;”

therefore prophesy, and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;”

Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.