Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Lamentations 2:16, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 35:21
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
- Psalms 37:12
The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
- Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
- Psalms 56:2
Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
- Job 16:9
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
- Psalms 35:16
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- Psalms 22:13
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
- Jeremiah 51:34
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 ha…
- Psalms 124:3
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
- Ezekiel 36:3
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 posse…
- Acts 7:54
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
- Jeremiah 50:17
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…
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How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.