Psalms 124:3

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then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger against us.

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  • Ps 57:3 : 3 I will call to God Most High, to God who accomplishes His purpose for me.
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive, whole, like those who go down to the pit;
  • Ps 35:25 : 25 Do not let them say in their hearts, 'Aha, just what we wanted!' Do not let them say, 'We have swallowed him up!'
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 For the director, according to 'The Silent Dove of Distant Places.' A Miktam of David, when the Philistines captured him in Gath. 2 Be gracious to me, O God, for mankind pursues me; all day long an attacker oppresses me!
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies. He has rinsed me out.
  • Dan 3:19 : 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. He ordered that the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usual.
  • Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, realizing that he had been deceived by the magi, became furious. He sent orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had determined from the magi.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 He requested letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 74:8 : 8 They said in their hearts, 'Let us completely subdue them!' They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 When God rose up to judge, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah.
  • Ps 83:4 : 4 They devise cunning plans against your people and conspire together against your treasured ones.
  • Num 16:30-34 : 30 But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented and the ground opens its mouth to swallow them and everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have treated the Lord with contempt. 31 As soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split apart. 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, along with all of Korah's men and all their possessions. 33 They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the community. 34 All the Israelites around them ran away at their cries, saying, 'The earth might swallow us too!'
  • 1 Sam 20:30-33 : 30 Saul’s anger flared up at Jonathan, and he said to him, 'You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Don’t I know that you have sided with the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?' 31 As long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now send someone to bring him to me, for he must die!' 32 Jonathan responded to his father Saul and asked, 'Why should he be put to death? What has he done?' 33 But Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan to kill him. Then Jonathan knew that his father was determined to kill David.
  • Esth 3:6 : 6 But he considered it beneath him to attack Mordecai alone, for they had told him about Mordecai’s people. So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.
  • Esth 3:12-13 : 12 On the thirteenth day of the first month, the king’s scribes were summoned and an edict was written according to all that Haman commanded. It was addressed to the satraps of the king, to the governors of each province, and to the officials of every people, to each province in its script and to each people in its language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, ordering the destruction, killing, and annihilation of all the Jews—young and old, children and women—in a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
  • Ps 27:2 : 2 When evildoers come against me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumble and fall.

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  • Prov 1:12
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    12Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive, whole, like those who go down to the pit;

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  • Ps 106:10-11
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  • 2 Sam 22:5
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    5For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of destruction terrified me.

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    14They come in as through a wide breach; chaos rolls in like a wave under the crash of destruction.

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    12You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them.

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    24Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their bodies always shake and tremble.

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    3For the enemy has pursued me, crushing my life to the ground and making me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.