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Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: 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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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Mouth, with scorn, Isaias lvii. 4., and Psalm xxxiv. 21.

Thomas Aquinas

AD 1274
Here a reviling from enemies is exposed. There: "All your enemies rail against you." That is, the Idumeans, the Moabites, and other enemies rail by accusing. Then: "they hiss" by detracting. "they gnash their teeth" by threatening. Also: "they cry: 'We have destroyed her!'" by insulting her. As Psalm 22 (21):13 states: "They open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion." Also, Jeremiah 51:34 asserts: "Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me." And Psalm 35 (34): 21 reports: "They open wide their mouths against me; they say, 'Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it'."

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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