Lamentations 2:16
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.
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Study Note
The voice of the enemies who 'open their mouths, hiss, gnash their teeth, and swallow up' Jerusalem intrudes into the lament poetry of Lamentations, giving the watching nations a speaking role that amplifies the humiliation of defeat. The phrase 'this is the day we looked for' is particularly devastating: enemy anticipation of Jerusalem's fall retroactively frames the entire period of city's existence as a period of waiting for this moment. The hissing (sharaq) and gnashing (charaq) are shame-gestures from the ancient Near Eastern honor-shame social register, adding social degradation to military defeat. The Psalms of lament (22:7; 35:21) use the same body-language of mockers, and Passion narrative descriptions of those who wagged their heads at the cross (Matthew 27:39) draw on this tradition.
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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.
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.'
All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
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