Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

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.

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 if it had not been LORD who was on our side when men rose up against us, 3 then they would have swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us, 4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul,


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 [from] the reproach of him who would swallow me up. Selah. God will send forth his loving kindness and his truth.

Proverbs 1:12

Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

Numbers 16:30-34

But if LORD makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that pertains to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall understand that these men have despised LORD.

1 Samuel 20:30-33

Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that thou have chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness?

Esther 3:6

But he disdained 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 throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai

Esther 3:12-13

Then the king's scribes were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it. And there was written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the r

Psalm 27:2

When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [even] my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Psalm 56:1-2

Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. Fighting all the day long he oppresses me.

Psalm 74:8

They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.

Psalm 76:10

Surely the inward thought of man shall praise thee, even the residue of inward thought will observe a festival to 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 has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his stomach with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

Daniel 3:19

Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. [Therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was accustomed to

Jonah 1:17

And LORD prepared a great sea creature to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the sea creature three days and three nights.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was scorned by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and having sent forth, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all the borders of it, from two years old and under, according to the time that

Acts 9:2

he requested letters from him for 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.

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