But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
Psalm 124:3 - English Standard Version 2016 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their anger was kindled against us; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then they had swallowed us up quick, When their wrath was kindled against us: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then they would have quickly swallowed us up alive when their wrath was kindled against us; American Standard Version (1901) Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us: Common English Bible then they would have swallowed us up whole with their rage burning against us! Catholic Public Domain Version For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to remain over the lot of the just, so that the just may not extend their hands toward iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the Lord will not leave the rod of sinners upon the lot of the just: that the just may not stretch forth their hands to iniquity. |
But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.
Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!
They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he has filled his stomach with my delicacies; he has rinsed me out.
Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated.
And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.
and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.