Lamentations 2:16
פ (Pe)
16 All your enemiesgloated over you. ▼
▼ Heb “they have opened wide their mouth against you.”
They sneered and gnashed their teeth;
they said, “We have destroyed ▼
▼ Heb “We have swallowed!”
her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day.
We have lived to see it!” ▼
▼ Heb “We have attained, we have seen!” The verbs מָצָאנוּ רָאִינוּ (matsa’nu ra’inu) form a verbal hendiadys in which the first retains its full verbal sense and the second functions as an object complement. It forms a Hebrew idiom that means something like, “We have lived to see it!” The three asyndetic 1st person common plural statements in 2:16 (“We waited, we destroyed, we saw!”) are spoken in an impassioned, staccato style reflecting the delight of the conquerors.
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