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Psalms 124:3

What does Psalms 124:3 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 124:3 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us:

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Then alive they had swallowed us up, In the burning of their anger against us,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

Context

v.2If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, When men rose up against us;

v.3This passage

v.4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 76:10

    Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.

  • Esther 3:12

    Then were the king’s scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof; and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king’s satraps, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

  • Psalms 35:25

    Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

  • Daniel 3:19

    Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.

  • Matthew 2:16

    Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.

  • Psalms 27:2

    When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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