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    our enemies would have eaten us alive![a]
They would have destroyed us,
    because they were so angry against us.
They would have been too strong for us,
    like rivers of waters that covered us,
They would have been like deep water over our heads
    that drowned us.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 124:3 ‘Eaten us alive’ is like a picture that means ‘destroyed us’.
  2. 124:5 The rivers and deep water are pictures of the power of the enemy.

they would have swallowed us alive
    when their anger flared against us;
the flood(A) would have engulfed us,
    the torrent(B) would have swept over us,
the raging waters
    would have swept us away.

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