Psalm 124:3 they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us;

English Standard Version
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

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

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger against us.

International Standard Version
then they would have devoured us alive, when their anger burned against us.

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

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

Cross References

Genesis 39:19
And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, After this manner did your servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

Numbers 16:30
But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down quick into the pit; then you shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.

Psalm 18:4
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

Psalm 35:25
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Psalm 56:1
Be merciful to me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me.

Psalm 56:2
My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O you most High.

Psalm 57:3
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Psalm 124:2
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Psalm 138:7
Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me.

Proverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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

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