Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their anger 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,
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;
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 for us, when men rose up against us, 3 Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us; 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, a torrent 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 the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness 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, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.
1 Samuel 20:30-33
And Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness?
Esther 3:6
But he scorned to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus the people of Mordecai.
Esther 3:12-13
Then were the king's scribes called, in the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month, and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors over every province, and to the princes of every people; to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to their language: in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
Psalm 27:2
When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Psalm 56:1-2
{To the chief Musician. On Jonathelem-rechokim. Of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.} Be gracious unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long fighting he oppresseth me.
Psalm 74:8
They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.
Psalm 76:10
For the fury of man shall praise thee; the remainder of fury wilt thou gird on thyself.
Psalm 83:4
They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, 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. He spoke, 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, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.
Acts 9:2
and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.