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Psalm 124

Psa. 124:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then
'azay (Hebrew #233)
at that time
KJV usage: then.
Pronounce: az-ah'ee
Origin: probably from 227
they had swallowed us up
bala` (Hebrew #1104)
to make away with (specifically by swallowing); generally, to destroy
KJV usage: cover, destroy, devour, eat up, be at end, spend up, swallow down (up).
Pronounce: baw-lah'
Origin: a primitive root
quick
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
, when their wrath
'aph (Hebrew #639)
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
KJV usage: anger(-gry), + before, countenance, face, + forebearing, forehead, + (long-)suffering, nose, nostril, snout, X worthy, wrath.
Pronounce: af
Origin: from 599
was kindled
charah (Hebrew #2734)
to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy
KJV usage: be angry, burn, be displeased, X earnestly, fret self, grieve, be (wax) hot, be incensed, kindle, X very, be wroth. See 8474.
Pronounce: khaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2787)
against us:

Cross References

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Then they.
Psa. 27:2• 2When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. (Psa. 27:2)
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Psa. 35:25• 25Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. (Psa. 35:25)
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Psa. 56:1‑2• 1<<To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.>> Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
(Psa. 56:1‑2)
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Psa. 57:3• 3He 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. (Psa. 57:3)
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Psa. 74:8• 8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. (Psa. 74:8)
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Psa. 83:4• 4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. (Psa. 83:4)
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Esther 3:6,12‑13• 6And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had showed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
12Then 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 were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
13And the letters were sent by posts 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 upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
(Esther 3:6,12‑13)
swallowed.
their wrath.
Psa. 76:10• 10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. (Psa. 76:10)
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1 Sam. 20:30‑33• 30Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?
31For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?
33And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
(1 Sam. 20:30‑33)
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Dan. 3:19• 19Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. (Dan. 3:19)
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Matt. 2:16• 16Then 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 under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men. (Matt. 2:16)
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Acts 9:2• 2And 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. (Acts 9:2)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;