Holy Scripture
Psalms 78:2
A church father on this verse
“"I will open my mouth in parables": to you I will open what is closed to the Jews; to you I will open my mouth in parables. "And without a parable," it says, "he did not speak to them"; but to his own disciples he unfolded the parables in private. "I will open my mouth in parables": what I speak to those others outwar…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2They have given the dead bodies of thy servants To be food for the birds of the sky, The flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth.
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1A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; They have polluted thy holy temple; They have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.
— Psalms 78:2 —
3They have shed their blood as water, Round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.