Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

then they would have swallowed us alive
in their burning anger 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:

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 on our side
when men attacked us,
3 then they would have swallowed us alive
in their burning anger against us.
4 Then the waters would have engulfed us;
the torrent would have swept over us;


Cross References

Psalm 35:25

Do not let them say in their hearts,
“Aha! Just what we wanted.”
Do not let them say,
“We have swallowed him up!”

Psalm 57:3

He reaches down from heaven and saves me,
challenging the one who tramples me.Selah
God sends His faithful love and truth.

Proverbs 1:12

Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,
still healthy as they go down to the Pit.

Numbers 16:30-34

But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”

1 Samuel 20:30-33

Then Saul became angry with Jonathan and shouted, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you are siding with Jesse’s son to your own shame and to the disgrace of your mother?

Esther 3:6

And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.

Esther 3:12-13

The royal scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded. It was intended for the royal satraps, the governors of each of the provinces, and the officials of each ethnic group and written for each province in its own script and to each ethnic group in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the royal signet ring.

Psalm 27:2

When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,
my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.

Psalm 56:1-2

For the choir director: according to “A Silent Dove Far Away.” A Davidic Miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath.Be gracious to me, God, for man tramples me;
he fights and oppresses me all day long.

Psalm 74:8

They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned down every place throughout the land
where God met with us.

Psalm 76:10

Even human wrath will praise You;
You will clothe Yourself
with their remaining wrath.

Psalm 83:4

They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”

Jeremiah 51:34

“Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me.
He has set me aside like an empty dish;
he has swallowed me like a sea monster;
he filled his belly with my delicacies;
he has vomited me out,”

Daniel 3:19

Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times more than was customary,

Jonah 1:17

Now the Lord had appointed a huge fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the fish three days and three nights.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the male children in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.

Acts 9:2

and requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women who belonged to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

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