Psalm 124:3 “when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us…”

Psalm 124:3

when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

World English Bible

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us,

American Standard Version

Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us:

Geneva Bible 1599

They had then swallowed vs vp quicke, when their wrath was kindled against vs.

Darby Translation

Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Young's Literal Translation

Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,

Bible in Basic English

They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

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Cross references

“Then they”

Psalm 35:25 Psalm 57:3 Psalm 27:2 Psalm 74:8 Psalm 83:4 Esther 3:6

Psalm 35:25 · BSB

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”

Psalm 57:3 · BSB

He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.

Psalm 27:2 · BSB

When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.

Psalm 74:8 · BSB

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

Psalm 83:4 · BSB

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Esther 3:6 · BSB

And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.

“swallowed”

Numbers 16:30–34 Proverbs 1:12 Jeremiah 51:34 Jonah 1:17

Numbers 16:30–34 · BSB

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the…

Proverbs 1:12 · BSB

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

Jeremiah 51:34 · BSB

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

Jonah 1:17 · BSB

Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.

“their wrath”

Matthew 2:16 Acts 9:2 Daniel 3:19 Psalm 76:10 1 Samuel 20:30–33

Matthew 2:16 · BSB

When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had le…

Acts 9:2 · BSB

and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Daniel 3:19 · BSB

At this, Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than usual,

Psalm 76:10 · BSB

Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.

1 Samuel 20:30–33 · BSB

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of the mother who bore yo…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,

4then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,

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