They would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger.

向我们发怒的时候，就把我们活活地吞了。

那时，人向我们发怒，就把我们活活吞了；

那时，人向我们发怒，就把我们活活吞了；

向我们发怒的时候，我们早已被他们生吞，

向我们发怒的时候，就把我们活活吞下去了。

他们的怒气向我们发作时，他们早就活活吞掉了我们——

向我們發怒的時候，就把我們活活地吞了。

那時，人向我們發怒，就把我們活活吞了；

那時，人向我們發怒，就把我們活活吞了；

向我們發怒的時候，我們早已被他們生吞，

向我們發怒的時候，就把我們活活吞下去了。

向我們發烈怒時，他們早就把我們活活吞下去了；

他們的怒氣向我們發作時，他們早就活活吞掉了我們——

奮怒於我、則生吞我兮、

彼向我發怒時、則早已將我生吞、

吾儕早應被吞滅。

they would have swallowed us alive when their anger flared against us;

Suppose he had not been on our side when their burning anger blazed out against us. Then they would have swallowed us alive.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us;

then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger against us.

Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their anger was kindled against us;

Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;

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

then they would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger against us.

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

they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Let’s swallow them alive, like the grave; let’s swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death.

He will send help from heaven to rescue me, disgracing those who hound me. Interlude My God will send forth his unfailing love and faithfulness.

Don’t let them say,“ Look, we got what we wanted! Now we will eat him alive!”

He had learned of Mordecai’s nationality, so he decided it was not enough to lay hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he looked for a way to destroy all the Jews throughout the entire empire of Xerxes.

Human defiance only enhances your glory, for you use it as a weapon.

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

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.

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 him 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 why should he be put to death?” Jonathan asked his father.“ What has he done?”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.

So on April 17 the king’s secretaries were summoned, and a decree was written exactly as Haman dictated. It was sent to the king’s highest officers, the governors of the respective provinces, and the nobles of each province in their own scripts and languages. The decree was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the king’s signet ring.Dispatches were sent by swift messengers into all the provinces of the empire, giving the order 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 on March 7 of the next year. The property of the Jews would be given to those who killed them.

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

“ King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has eaten and crushed us and drained us of 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.

He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for 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.

But if the Lord does something entirely new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them and all their belongings, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have shown contempt for the Lord.”He had hardly finished speaking the words when the ground suddenly split open beneath them.The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the men, along with their households and all their followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned.So they went down alive into the grave, along with all their belongings. The earth closed over them, and they all vanished from among the people of Israel.All the people around them fled when they heard their screams.“ The earth will swallow us, too!” they cried.

O God, have mercy on me, for people are hounding me. My foes attack me all day long.I am constantly hounded by those who slander me, and many are boldly attacking me.

Herod was furious when he realized 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, based on the wise men’s report of the star’s first appearance.

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

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