Psalms 124:3 Cross References

Psalms 124:3

3: they would have swallowed us alive because of their burning anger against us.

He will send help from heaven to save me, rescuing me from those who are out to get me. My God will send forth his unfailing love and faithfulness.

Let's swallow them alive as the grave swallows its victims. Though they are in the prime of life, they will go down into the pit of death.

When evil people come to destroy me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.

Human opposition only enhances your glory, for you use it as a sword of judgment.

So he decided it was not enough to lay hands on Mordecai alone. Since he had learned that Mordecai was a Jew, he decided to destroy all the Jews throughout the entire empire of Xerxes.

He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking their cooperation in the arrest of any followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them--both men and women--back to Jerusalem in chains.

Herod was furious when he learned that the wise men had outwitted him. He sent soldiers to kill all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, because the wise men had told him the star first appeared to them about two years earlier.

"Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence."

On April 17 Haman called in the king's secretaries and dictated letters to the princes, the governors of the respective provinces, and the local officials of each province in their own scripts and languages. These letters were signed in the name of King Xerxes, sealed with his ring,
and sent by messengers into all the provinces of the empire. The letters decreed that all Jews--young and old, including women and children--must be killed, slaughtered, and annihilated on a single day. This was scheduled to happen nearly a year later on March 7. The property of the Jews would be given to those who killed them.

Saul boiled with rage at Jonathan. "You stupid son of a whore!" he swore at him. "Do you think I don't know that you want David to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother?
As long as that son of Jesse is alive, you'll never be king. Now go and get him so I can kill him!"
"But what has he done?" Jonathan demanded. "Why should he be put to death?"
Then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan, intending to kill him. So at last Jonathan realized that his father was really determined to kill David.

Then they thought, "Let's destroy everything!" So they burned down all the places where God was worshiped.

Now the LORD had arranged for a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.

But if the LORD performs a miracle and the ground opens up and swallows them and all their belongings, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD."
He had hardly finished speaking the words when the ground suddenly split open beneath them.
The earth opened up and swallowed the men, along with their households and the followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned.
So they went down alive into the grave, along with their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished.
All of the people of Israel fled as they heard their screams, fearing that the earth would swallow them, too.

"King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has eaten and crushed us and emptied out our strength. He has swallowed us like a great monster and filled his belly with our riches. He has thrown us out of our own country.

Nebuchadnezzar was so furious with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face became distorted with rage. He commanded that the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usual.

O God, have mercy on me. The enemy troops press in on me. My foes attack me all day long.
My slanderers hound me constantly, and many are boldly attacking me.

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