Phe. All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they have hissed and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow her up. Lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we have seen it.
He. The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath cast down Israel headlong, he hath overthrown all the walls thereof: he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Juda the afflicted, both men and women.
Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath eaten me up: he hath devoured me: he hath made me as an empty vessel: he hath swallowed me up like a dragon: he hath filled his belly with my delicate meats and he hath cast me out.
And the earth opening her mouth swallowed up Core, many others dying: when the fire burned two hundred and fifty men. And there was a great miracle wrought,