A Psalm of David. I will call to You, O Jehovah; my Rock, be not silent to me, lest, if you be silent from me I may be compared with those going down into the Pit.
Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has devoured us. He has crushed us. He has set us up as an empty vessel. He has swallowed us like a jackal. He has filled his belly with delicacies. He has cast me out.
All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed up. Surely this is the day for which we waited; we have found; we have seen.
The Lord was like an enemy; He swallowed up Israel; He swallowed up all his fortresses and destroyed his strongholds; and He increased mourning and weeping in the daughter of Judah.
And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah, at the death of that gathering, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men. And they became a sign;