Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Ver. 3. Then had they swallowed us up quick] As the great fish do the little ones, as hungry lions, or wolves, ravin up their prey. Ptolemy Lathurus, king of Egypt, slew thirty thousand Jews, and compelled the living to feed upon the dead. Adrian the emperor made a decree, that he who had not slain a Jew should himself be slain (Gualth Praef. in Marc. R. Obad. Gaon in Psa 124:1-8).
When their wrath was kindled against us] Heb. in the flagrancies or inflammations of their anger.