Psalms 124:3

World English Bible (2000)

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

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  • Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.
  • Prov 1:12 : 12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
  • Ps 35:25 : 25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. 2 My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.
  • Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
  • Dan 3:19 : 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
  • Jonah 1:17 : 17 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
  • Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Ps 74:8 : 8 They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
  • Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
  • Ps 83:4 : 4 "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
  • Num 16:30-34 : 30 But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh." 31 It happened, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground split apart that was under them; 32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods. 33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly. 34 All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"
  • 1 Sam 20:30-33 : 30 Then Saul's anger was kindled 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? 31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!" 32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" 33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.
  • Esth 3:6 : 6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai's people.
  • Esth 3:12-13 : 12 Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king's ring. 13 Letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
  • Ps 27:2 : 2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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  • Ps 124:4-7
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    4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

    5 then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

    6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

    7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

  • Ps 124:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

    2 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

  • Prov 1:12
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    12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

  • Ps 35:25
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    25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

  • Lam 3:46-47
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    46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

    47 Fear and the pit are come on us, devastation and destruction.

  • Ps 17:11
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    11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • Lam 4:19
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    19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Ps 90:7
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    7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

  • Ps 106:10-11
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    10 He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

    11 The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

    4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

  • Num 16:34
    73%

    34 All Israel that were around them fled at the cry of them; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up!"

  • Ps 21:9
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    9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

  • Ps 44:19
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    19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Lam 3:43
    72%

    43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

  • 2 Sam 22:5
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    5 For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

  • Job 30:14
    72%

    14 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

  • Exod 15:12
    71%

    12 You stretched out your right hand. The earth swallowed them.

  • Ps 69:24
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    24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

  • Ps 78:53
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    53 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

  • Exod 15:5
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    5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

  • Ps 78:30-31
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    30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

    31 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

  • Ps 107:5-6
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    5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

    6 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

  • Ps 22:13
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    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Ps 107:26
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    26 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

  • Job 22:20
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    20 saying, 'Surely those who rose up against us are cut off. The fire has consumed the remnant of them.'

  • Ps 94:17
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    17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

  • Ps 107:13
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    13 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

  • Ps 118:12
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    12 They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

  • Ps 66:6
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    6 He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.

  • Ps 56:1
    70%

    1 Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

  • Ps 27:2
    70%

    2 When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

  • Lam 2:16
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    16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

  • Ps 44:10
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    10 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

  • Ps 73:19
    70%

    19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • Exod 15:10
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    10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • Ps 66:12
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    12 You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

  • Num 16:32
    70%

    32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who appertained to Korah, and all their goods.

  • Ps 33:19
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    19 to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

  • Ps 126:2
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    2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."

  • Ps 143:3
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    3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.