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 If the LORD had not been for us, 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 overwhelmed us; the flood would have gone over our soul;

Cross References

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 57:3

He shall send from the heavens and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy 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 the LORD does a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all their things and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the LORD.

1 Samuel 20:30-33

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

Esther 3:6

And he thought it a small matter to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for now they had declared unto him the people of Mordecai; therefore, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.

Esther 3:12-13

Then the king's scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants and to the governors that were over each province and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof and to every people after their language; in the name of King Ahasuerus it was written and sealed with the king's ring.

Psalm 27:2

When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Psalm 56:1-2

Be merciful unto me, O God, for man would swallow me up; he oppresses me fighting me daily.

Psalm 74:8

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them at once; they have burned up all the meeting places of the people of God in the earth.

Psalm 76:10

Surely the wrath of man shall cause praise to come unto thee; the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

Psalm 83:4

They have said, Come and let us cut them off from being a people 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 swallowed me up like a dragon; he has filled his belly with my delicates; 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 customary to be heated.

Jonah 1:17

Now the LORD had 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 was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth and sent forth and killed all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had understood of the wise men.

Acts 9:2

and asked him for letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

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