Parallel Verses
World English Bible
then they would have 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,
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:
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 Yahweh 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;
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 35:25
Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
Psalm 57:3
He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
Proverbs 1:12
let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
Numbers 16:30-34
But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh."
1 Samuel 20:30-33
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
Esther 3:6
But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai's people.
Esther 3:12-13
Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king's ring.
Psalm 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalm 56:1-2
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Psalm 74:8
They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
Psalm 76:10
Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
Psalm 83:4
"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
Jeremiah 51:34
Nebuchadnezzar 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 maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
Daniel 3:19
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
Jonah 1:17
Yahweh 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 by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
Acts 9:2
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.