Psalms 124:3

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

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  • Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
  • Ps 35:25 : 25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me. 2 My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.
  • Dan 3:19 : 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was full of wrath, and the form of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: and he gave orders that the fire was to be heated up seven times more than it was generally heated.
  • Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 And made a request for letters from him to the Synagogues of Damascus, so that if there were any of the Way there, men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 74:8 : 8 They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 The ... will give you praise; the rest of ...
  • Ps 83:4 : 4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.
  • Num 16:30-34 : 30 But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men. 31 And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two; 32 And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods. 33 So they and all theirs went down living into the underworld, and the earth was shut over them, and they were cut off from among the meeting of the people. 34 And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.
  • 1 Sam 20:30-33 : 30 Then Saul was moved to wrath against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of an evil and uncontrolled woman, have I not seen how you have given your love to the son of Jesse, to your shame and the shame of your mother? 31 For while the son of Jesse is living on the earth, your position is unsafe and your kingdom is in danger. So make him come here to me, for it is certainly right for him to be put to death. 32 And Jonathan, answering his father Saul, said to him, Why is he to be put to death? What has he done? 33 And Saul, pointing his spear at him, made an attempt to give him a wound: from which it was clear to Jonathan that his father's purpose was to put David to death.
  • Esth 3:6 : 6 But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
  • Esth 3:12-13 : 12 Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring. 13 And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.
  • Ps 27:2 : 2 When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

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    4We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;

    5Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.

    6Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be wounded by their teeth.

    7Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.

  • Ps 124:1-2
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    1<A Song of the going up. Of David.> If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);

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  • Prov 1:12
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    12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

  • Ps 35:25
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    25Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

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    46The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

    47Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.

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    11They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Lam 4:19
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    19Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

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    3Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

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    34And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.

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    9You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

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    19Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • Lam 3:43
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    43Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

  • 2 Sam 22:5
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    5For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;

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    14As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

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    12When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

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    24Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

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    53He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

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    5They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.

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    30But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

    31The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

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    11See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.

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    5Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

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    17If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

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    13Then they sent up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gave them salvation out of all their troubles.

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    2When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

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    16All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

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    19To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

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    2Then our mouths were full of laughing, and our tongues gave a glad cry; they said among the nations, The Lord has done great things for them.

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    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.