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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 evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, 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 heart, Aha! 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• 1To the chief Musician. On Jonathelem-rechokim. Of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be gracious unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long fighting he oppresseth me.
 2Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily. (Psa. 56:1‑2)
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Psa. 57:3• 3He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth. (Psa. 57:3)
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Psa. 74:8• 8They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all *God's places of assembly in the land. (Psa. 74:8)
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Psa. 83:4• 4They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more. (Psa. 83:4)
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Esther 3:6,12‑13• 6But he scorned to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus--the people of Mordecai.
 12Then were the king's scribes called, in the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month, and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors over every province, and to the princes of every people; to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to their language: in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.
 13And the 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, upon the thirteenth of the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey. (Esther 3:6,12‑13)
swallowed.
Num. 16:30‑34• 30but if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.
 31And it came to pass when he had ended speaking all these words, that the ground clave apart that was under them.
 32And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that belonged to Korah, and all their property.
 33And they went down, they and all that they had, alive into Sheol, and the earth covered them; and they perished from among the congregation.
 34And all Israel that were round about them fled at their cry; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up! (Num. 16:30‑34)
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Prov. 1:12• 12let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit; (Prov. 1:12)
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Jer. 51:34• 34Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out. (Jer. 51:34)
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Jonah 1:17• 17And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. (Jonah 1:17)
their wrath.
Psa. 76:10• 10For the fury of man shall praise thee; the remainder of fury wilt thou gird on thyself. (Psa. 76:10)
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1 Sam. 20:30‑33• 30And Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, Son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame and to the shame of thy mother's nakedness?
 31For as long as the son of Jesse lives upon earth, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. And now send and fetch him to me, for he must die.
 32And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to death? what has he done?
 33Then Saul cast the spear at him to smite him; and Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to put David to death. (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. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated. (Dan. 3:19)
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Matt. 2:16• 16Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which were in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi. (Matt. 2:16)
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Acts 9:2• 2and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to 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;