Psalm 124:3
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New International Version (©1984)
when their anger flared against us, they would have swallowed us alive;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their anger was kindled against us;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
then they would have swallowed us alive when their anger exploded against us.

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

American King James Version
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

American Standard Version
Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled 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:

Douay-Rheims Bible
perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,

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

English Revised Version
Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Webster's Bible Translation
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;

Young's Literal Translation
Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,

Geneva Study Bible

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

(b) So unable were we to resist.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

3. Then-that is, the time of our danger.

quick-literally, "living" (Nu 16:32, 33), description of ferocity.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

124:1-5 God suffers the enemies of his people sometimes to prevail very far against them, that his power may be seen the more in their deliverance. Happy the people whose God is Jehovah, a God all-sufficient. Besides applying this to any particular deliverance wrought in our days and the ancient times, we should have in our thoughts the great work of redemption by Jesus Christ, by which believers were rescued from Satan.


Genesis 39:19 Now when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your slave did to me," his anger burned.
Numbers 16:30 "But if the LORD brings about an entirely new thing and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that is theirs, and they descend alive into Sheol, then you will understand that these men have spurned the LORD."
Psalm 35:25 Do not let them say in their heart, "Aha, our desire!" Do not let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
Psalm 56:1 For the choir director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath. Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me; Fighting all day long he oppresses me.
Psalm 57:3 He will send from heaven and save me; He reproaches him who tramples upon me. Selah. God will send forth His lovingkindness and His truth.
Psalm 138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, And Your right hand will save me.
Proverbs 1:12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit; (NASB ©1995)

Alive Anger Burning Flared Heat Kindled Meal Quick Swallowed Wrath


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

then they Ps 27:2 35:25 56:1,2 57:3 74:8 83:4 Es 3:6,12,13

swallowed Nu 16:30-34 Pr 1:12 Jer 51:34 Jon 1:17

their wrath Ps 76:10 1Sa 20:30-33 Da 3:19 Mt 2:16 Ac 9:2

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