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مزامير 124:3
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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.
