Psalms 124:3. When their wrath was kindled against us:
If it had not been God who had engaged to take care of his people, they would all have perished, but that God must be Jehovah. I wish that our translators had not been carried away by the superstition of the Jews, and that they had used the word "Jehovah" where it is employed in the original. This verse and the previous one would have read, "If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, when men rose up against us: then they had swallowed us up alive," as some beasts, and birds, and fishes swallow their prey and as some men would do with us if they could, that is, swallow us up alive, making a short and speedy end of us, not waiting to tear us in pieces, but swallowing us whole and alive.
Psalms 124:3. When their wrath was kindled against us:
If it had not been God who had engaged to take care of his people, they would all have perished, but that God must be Jehovah. I wish that our translators had not been carried away by the superstition of the Jews, and that they had used the word "Jehovah" where it is employed in the original. This verse and the previous one would have read, "If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, when men rose up against us: then they had swallowed us up alive," as some beasts, and birds, and fishes swallow their prey and as some men would do with us if they could, that is, swallow us up alive, making a short and speedy end of us, not waiting to tear us in pieces, but swallowing us whole and alive.