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Good News Translation

Psalms 124:3

then they would have swallowed us alive in their furious anger against us;

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hallel;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Degrees;   Obsolete or obscure words in the english av bible;   Psalms the book of;   Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bible, the;   Hezekiah (2);   Poetry, Hebrew;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
then they would have swallowed us alivein their burning anger against us.
Hebrew Names Version
Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
King James Version
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
English Standard Version
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
New Century Version
When they were angry with us, they would have swallowed us alive.
New English Translation
they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.
Amplified Bible
Then they would have [quickly] swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
New American Standard Bible
Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their anger was kindled against us;
World English Bible
Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
Geneva Bible (1587)
They had then swallowed vs vp quicke, when their wrath was kindled against vs.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then they would have swallowed us alive,When their anger was kindled against us;
Berean Standard Bible
when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
Contemporary English Version
would have killed us all, because it was furious.
Complete Jewish Bible
then, when their anger blazed against us, they would have swallowed us alive!
Darby Translation
Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
Easy-to-Read Version
They would have swallowed us alive when they became angry with us.
George Lamsa Translation
Then would they have swallowed us alive when their wrath was kindled against us,
Lexham English Bible
then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger was kindled against us.
Literal Translation
then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger glowed against us.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee the waters had drowned vs, the streame had gone ouer oure soule.
American Standard Version
Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us:
Bible in Basic English
They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
King James Version (1611)
Then they had swallowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was kindled against vs.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then they had swalowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was so inflamed against vs.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
verily they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:
English Revised Version
Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in hap thei hadden swalewid vs quike. Whanne the woodnesse of hem was wrooth ayens vs;
Update Bible Version
Then they would have swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
Webster's Bible Translation
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
New King James Version
Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
New Living Translation
They would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger.
New Life Bible
they would have eaten us up alive. Because their anger burned against us.
New Revised Standard
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, alive, had they swallowed us up, in the glow of their anger against us;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(123-3) Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us,
Revised Standard Version
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
Young's Literal Translation
Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their anger was kindled against us;

Contextual Overview

1 What if the Lord had not been on our side? Answer, O Israel! 2 "If the Lord had not been on our side when our enemies attacked us, 3 then they would have swallowed us alive in their furious anger against us; 4 then the flood would have carried us away, the water would have covered us, 5 the raging torrent would have drowned us."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Then they: Psalms 27:2, Psalms 35:25, Psalms 56:1, Psalms 56:2, Psalms 57:3, Psalms 74:8, Psalms 83:4, Esther 3:6, Esther 3:12, Esther 3:13

swallowed: Numbers 16:30-34, Proverbs 1:12, Jeremiah 51:34, Jonah 1:17

their wrath: Psalms 76:10, 1 Samuel 20:30-33, Daniel 3:19, Matthew 2:16, Acts 9:2

Reciprocal: Joshua 7:9 - environ 2 Samuel 18:31 - the Lord 2 Samuel 20:19 - swallow Job 29:17 - and plucked Psalms 93:3 - the floods lift Isaiah 49:19 - they that Lamentations 2:16 - We have swallowed 2 Corinthians 2:7 - swallowed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then they had swallowed us up quick,.... Or "alive"; as the earth swallowed up Korah and his company; or as the fish swallowed up Jonah; or rather as ravenous beasts swallow their prey; to which the allusion is. The people of God are comparable to sheep and lambs, and such like innocent creatures: and the wicked to lions, tigers, wolves, bears, and such like beasts of prey that devour living creatures;

when their wrath was kindled against us; which is cruel and outrageous; there is no standing against it, nor before it; it is like a fierce flame of fire that burns furiously, and there is no stopping it; none but God can restrain it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then they had swallowed us up quick - There was no other help, and ruin - utter ruin - would have soon come upon us. The word quick here means alive; and the idea is derived from persons swallowed up in an earthquake, or by the opening of the earth, as in the case of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Numbers 16:32-33. Compare Psalms 106:17. The meaning here is, that they would have been destroyed as if they were swallowed up by the opening of the earth; that is, there would have been complete destruction.

When their wrath was kindled against us - Hebrew, In the kindling of their wrath against us. Wrath is often represented in the Scriptures as burning or heated - as that which consumes all before it.


 
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