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Psalms 124:3

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

KJV

Quia non relinquet Dominus virgam peccatorum super sortem justorum : ut non extendant justi ad iniquitatem manus suas,

Vulgate

ὅτι οὐκ ἀφήσει τὴν ῥάβδον τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν ἐπὶ τὸν κλῆρον τῶν δικαίων, ὅπως ἂν μὴ ἐκτείνωσιν οἱ δίκαιοι ἐν ἀνομίᾳ χεῖρας αὐτῶν.

LXX

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

ASV

אֲ֭זַי חַיִּ֣ים בְּלָע֑וּ/נוּ בַּ/חֲר֖וֹת אַפָּ֣/ם בָּֽ/נוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲ֭זַי
'zy
adverb · 3×
וֹ
v
noun · 275×
חַי
chy
verb · 502×
יִּֽחַר
ychr
verb · 89×
ם
m
verb · 50×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Cor 2:7 — So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
  • Acts 9:2 — And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
  • Dan 3:19 — Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven time
  • Esth 3:12 — Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that wer
  • Lam 2:16 — All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: 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.
  • Matt 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 children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and
  • Num 16:30 — But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men hav
  • Prov 1:12 — Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
  • Ps 27:2 — When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
  • Ps 35:25 — Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
  • Ps 35:25 — Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
  • Ps 56:1 — Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
  • Ps 57:3 — He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
  • Ps 93:3 — The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.