Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

then they would have devoured us alive, when their anger burned 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.

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 came against us, 3 then they would have devoured us alive, when their anger burned against us. 4 Then the flood waters would have overwhelmed us, the torrent would have flooded over us;


Cross References

Psalm 35:25

Don't let them say in their hearts, "Yes! We got what we wanted." Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up."

Psalm 57:3

He will send help from heaven to deliver me from those who harass and despise me. Interlude God will send his gracious love and truth.

Proverbs 1:12

Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those who go down into the Pit.

Numbers 16:30-34

But if the LORD creates something new, so that the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and everything that belongs to them and they all descend directly to Sheol while still alive, then you'll know that these men have spurned the LORD."

1 Samuel 20:30-33

Saul flew into a rage and told Jonathan, "You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don't I know that you have chosen Jesse's son to your shame and to the shame of your mother who bore you?

Esther 3:6

Because they had told him who the people of Mordecai were, Haman found it unacceptable to kill only Mordecai. So Haman sought to destroy all of Mordecai's people, the Jewish people, who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Esther 3:12-13

The king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and all that Haman commanded was written to the regional authorities of the king, to the governors who were over each province, and to the officials of each people. This order was translated in the name of King Ahasuerus into the language of each province and bore the seal of the king's signet ring.

Psalm 27:2

When those who practice evil, my enemies, and my oppressors come near me to devour my flesh, they stumble and fall.

Psalm 56:1-2

Have mercy on me, God, because men have harassed me. Those who oppress me have fought against me all day long.

Psalm 74:8

They say to themselves, "We'll crush them completely;" They burned down all the meeting places of God in the land.

Psalm 76:10

Even human anger praises you; you will wear the survivors of your wrath as an ornament.

Psalm 83:4

They say, "Let us go and erase them as a nation so the name of Israel will not be remembered anymore."

Jeremiah 51:34

"King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me and crushed me. He set me down like an empty vessel. He swallowed me like a monster, and filled his belly with my delicacies. Then he washed me away.

Daniel 3:19

Out of control with rage, Nebuchadnezzar's facial expression changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and he ordered that the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usual.

Jonah 1:17

Now the LORD had prepared a large sea creature to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the sea creature for three days and three nights.

Matthew 2:16

Herod flew into a rage when he learned that he had been tricked by the wise men, so he ordered the execution of all the male children in Bethlehem and all its neighboring regions, who were two years old and younger, according to the time that he had determined from the wise men.

Acts 9:2

He asked him for letters to take with him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he might bring them in chains to Jerusalem.

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