Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
New American Standard Bible
When their
King James Version
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Holman Bible
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,
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,
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 124:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Is On Our Side
2 If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, When men rose up against us; 3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us; 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 35:25
Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Psalm 57:3
He will send from heaven, and save me, When he that would swallow me up reproacheth; Selah God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
Proverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Numbers 16:30-34
But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.
1 Samuel 20:30-33
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother's nakedness?
Esther 3:6
But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esther 3:12-13
Then were the king's scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof; and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king's ring.
Psalm 27:2
When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalm 56:1-2
Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me.
Psalm 74:8
They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Psalm 76:10
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.
Psalm 83:4
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.
Daniel 3:19
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Jonah 1:17
And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.
Acts 9:2
and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.