Psalms 124:3
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
American King James Version (AKJV)
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
American Standard Version (ASV)
Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
Basic English Translation (BBE)
They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:
Webster's Revision
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
World English Bible
then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;
English Revised Version (ERV)
Then they had swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Barnes's Psalms 124:3 Bible Commentary
Then they had swallowed us up quick - There was no other help, and ruin - utter ruin - would have soon come upon us. The word quick here means alive; and the idea is derived from persons swallowed up in an earthquake, or by the opening of the earth, as in the case of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Numbers 16:32-33. Compare Psalm 106:17. The meaning here is, that they would have been destroyed as if they were swallowed up by the opening of the earth; that is, there would have been complete destruction.
When their wrath was kindled against us - Hebrew, In the kindling of their wrath against us. Wrath is often represented in the Scriptures as burning or heated - as that which consumes all before it.