Tree of Life Version
Psalms 124:3
3then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath burned against us.
Psalms 124:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
- New International Version (NIV)they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us;
- English Standard Version (ESV)then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
Context of Psalms 124:3
1A Song of Ascents. Of David. “Had Adonai not been on our side” —let Israel now say— 2“Had Adonai not been on our side, when men rose up against us, then they would have swallowed us alive, when their wrath burned against us. 4Then the waters would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over our soul, 5then the raging waters would have swept over our soul.”
Read all of Psalms 124Psalms 124:3 word by word
אֲ֭זַי חַיִּ֣ים בְּלָע֑וּנוּ בַּחֲר֖וֹת אַפָּ֣ם בָּֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 124:3
- Psalms 27:2When evildoers approached me to devour my flesh —my adversaries and my foes— they stumbled and fell.
- Psalms 35:25Don’t let them say in their heart: “Aha! Just what we wanted!” Don’t let them say: “We swallowed him up!”
- Psalms 56:1For the music director: “A Silent Dove Far Away,” a Michtam of David, when the Philistines had seized him in Gath.
- Psalms 57:3I will cry out to El Elyon, to God who accomplishes it for me.
- Psalms 74:8They said in their hearts: “Let us crush them totally!” They burned down all the meeting places of God in the land.
- Psalms 83:4They make a shrewd plot against Your people, conspiring against Your treasured ones.
- Esther 3:6But it was repugnant in his eyes to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him the identity of Mordecai’s people. So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
- Numbers 16:30But if Adonai brings about a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them and everything that is theirs, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised Adonai.”
- Proverbs 1:12Let’s swallow them alive like Sheol— still healthy, as they go down to the Pit!
- Jeremiah 51:34“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me, crushed me, set me aside like an empty dish, swallowed me up like a dragon, filled his belly with my delicacies, rinsed me away.”
- Psalms 76:10when God rose up to judgment, to save all the humble of the land. Selah
- 1 Samuel 20:30Then Saul’s rage blazed against Jonathan and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse—to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?
- Daniel 3:19Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage and the appearance of his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. He ordered the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than it was normally heated
- Matthew 2:16Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became furious. And he sent and killed all boys in Bethlehem and in all its surrounding area, from two years old and under, according to the time he had determined from the magi.
- Acts 9:2He requested letters of introduction from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he might bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
Commentaries on Psalms 124:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Then 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 Psalm 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-8This thanksgiving song describes what might happen if the Lord were not present with his people.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. Then--that is, the time of our danger. quick--literally, "living" (Nu 16:32, 33), description of ferocity.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Psalms 124
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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