Psalms 124:3
A plain-spoken deep dive on this verse. Read the chapter →
when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
Original language
The Hebrew and Greek words behind this passage, with Strong's numbers — from openscriptures (CC BY-SA).
Cross-references
Other passages the community most often connects to this one. Tap to read.
He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.
and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.
When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”
When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.
At this, Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and the expression on his face changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than usual,
let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”