Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their anger was kindled against us;

King James Version

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

Holman 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.

A Conservative Version

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;

Amplified


Then they would have [quickly] swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Then they swallowed us down living, in the kindling of their anger against us:

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger was kindled against us.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

they had swallowed us up alive, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

NET Bible

they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Then, alive, had they swallowed us up, in the glow of their anger against us;

Webster

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;

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Lord Is On Our Side

2 “Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
When men rose up against us,
3 Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their anger was kindled against us;
4 Then the waters would have engulfed us,
The stream would have swept over our soul;


Cross References

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 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.

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;

Numbers 16:30-34

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.”

1 Samuel 20:30-33

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you are choosing the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?

Esther 3:6

But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Esther 3:12-13

Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its language, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.

Psalm 27:2

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Psalm 56:1-2

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 74:8

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Psalm 76:10

For the wrath of man shall praise You;
With a remnant of wrath You will gird Yourself.

Psalm 83:4

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me,
He has set me down like an empty vessel;
He has swallowed me like a monster,
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
He has washed me away.

Daniel 3:19

Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and his facial expression was altered toward Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. He answered by giving orders to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

Jonah 1:17

And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights.

Matthew 2:16

Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became very enraged, and sent and slew all the male children who were in Bethlehem and all its vicinity, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the magi.

Acts 9:2

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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