And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Ver. 26. And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh.] Which yet "no man ever hated, but nourisheth and cherisheth it." Eph 5:29 But Zion's enemies should one destroy another, and be put to such straits as the Jews were in the siege of their city by Titus, that they fed upon their own flesh, and the flesh of their children. a So hard a thing it is "to kick against the pricks"; quae in coelum expuunt, in faciem ipsorum recidunt.
And they shall be drunk with their own blood.] Yea, drowned in it, as was Attila king of Huns, b Felix, Count of Wartenburg, a great warrior and bloody persecutor of the Lutherans, who was choked in his own blood, and Charles IX of France, to whom a certain poet thus rightly speaketh,
“ Naribus, ore, oculis, atque auribus undique, et ano,
Et pene, erumpit qui tibi, Carle, cruor,
Non tuus iste cruor, sanctorum at caede cruorem
Quem ferns hausisti, concoquere haud poteras. ”
a Alterum ut alterius mactatum sanguine cernas.
b Flac. Illyr.