Parallel Verses
Amplified
Then they would have [quickly] swallowed us 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;
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,
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 the Lord who was on our side
When men rose up against us,
Then they would have [quickly] swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;
Then the waters would have engulfed us,
The torrent would have swept over our soul;
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 35:25
Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, that is what we wanted!”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up and destroyed him.”
Psalm 57:3
He will send from heaven and save me;
He calls to account him who tramples me down. Selah.
God will send out His lovingkindness and His truth.
Proverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol (the place of the dead),
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit [of death];
Numbers 16:30-34
But if the Lord creates an entirely new thing, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, along with all that belongs to them, and they descend alive into Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), then you will understand that these men have spurned and rejected the Lord!”
1 Samuel 20:30-33
Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a
Esther 3:6
But he disdained laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were (his nationality); so Haman determined to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who lived throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
Esther 3:12-13
Then the king’s scribes (secretaries) were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king’s satraps (chief rulers), and to the governors who were over each province and to the officials of each people, each province according to its script (writing), each people according to their own language; being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.
Psalm 27:2
When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.
Psalm 56:1-2
All day long the adversary oppresses and torments me.
Psalm 74:8
They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
Psalm 76:10
For the wrath of man shall praise You;
With a remnant of wrath You will clothe and arm Yourself.
Psalm 83:4
They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;
Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Jeremiah 51:34
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured
He has set me down like an empty vessel.
Like a monster he has swallowed me up,
He has filled his belly with my delicacies;
He has spit me out and washed me away.
Daniel 3:19
Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and his facial expression changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. Then he gave a command that the furnace was to be heated seven
Jonah 1:17
Now the Lord had prepared (appointed, destined) a great
Matthew 2:16
Then Herod, when he realized that he had been tricked by the magi, was extremely angry, and he sent [soldiers] and put to death all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that area who were two years old and under, according to the date which he had learned from the magi.
Acts 9:2
and he asked for letters [of authority] from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any men or women there belonging to