Psalm 124:3

The Lord Is On Our Side

² "If [it had] not [been] Yahweh 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 flooded over us, [the] torrent would have passed over our soul.

Anger Was Kindled

Psalm 35:25

Do not let them say in their hearts, "Aha, our desire." Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."

Psalm 57:3

He will send from heaven and save me; he will reproach [the] one who tramples me. Selah God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness.

Proverbs 1:12

Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive and whole, {like those who descend to the pit}.

Numbers 16:30-34

But if Yahweh creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up and {all that belongs to them}, and they go down alive [to] Sheol, and you will know that these men have despised Yahweh."

1 Samuel 20:30-33

Then {Saul became angry} at Jonathan and said to him, "[You] son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

Esther 3:6

But {he considered it beneath him} to lay hands on Mordecai only, for they told him of Mordecai's people, and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who [were] in the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Esther 3:12-13

And the king's secretaries were called in the first month on the thirteenth day, and [a decree] was issued, according to all that Haman commanded, to the satraps of the king and to the governors who [were] over all the provinces, and to [the] officials of all the people, to each province according to [its own] script and to all people according to their own language; [it was] written in the name of King Ahasuerus and [was] sealed with the king's ring.

Psalm 27:2

When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh-- my adversaries and my enemies [who drew near] to me-- they themselves stumbled and fell.

Psalm 56:1-2

Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me.

Psalm 74:8

They have said in their heart, "We will completely oppress them." They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Psalm 76:10

For the anger of humankind will praise you. You will put on [the] remnant of anger.

Psalm 83:4

They say, "Come, let us annihilate them from [being] a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more."

Jeremiah 51:34

Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me [and] sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me.

Daniel 3:19

Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with anger and the image of his face was changed {toward} Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, [so he] {ordered and said} to heat up the one furnace seven times what was usual to heat [it] up.

Jonah 1:17

And Yahweh provided a large 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 had been deceived by the wise men, became very angry, and he sent [soldiers] [and] executed all the children in Bethlehem and in all the region [around] it from [the age of] two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined precisely from the wise men.

Acts 9:2

[and] asked for letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, both men and women, he could bring [them] tied up to Jerusalem.