Psalms 124:3
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.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
In Context
4Do good, O Lord, to the good and to the upright of heart.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:30Then Saul, becoming angry against Jonathan, said to him: “You son of a woman wantonly seizing a man! Could I be ignorant that you love the son of Jesse, to your own shame, and to the shame of your disgraceful mother?
Esther 3:12And the scribes of the king were summoned, in the first month Nisan, on the thirteenth day of the same month. And it was written, as Haman had commanded, to all the king’s governors, and to the judges of the provinces, and to various peoples, so that each people could read and hear according to their various languages, in the name of king Artaxerxes. And the letters were sealed with his ring.
Psalms 57:3For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.
Psalms 76:10And would God ever forget to be merciful? Or, would he, in his wrath, restrict his mercies?
Psalms 83:5Blessed are those who dwell in your house, O Lord. They will praise you from age to age.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 124:2-6
The Security of God's People. 1 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say; 2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. The people of God, being here called upon to praise God for their deliverance, are to take notice, I. Of the malice of men, by which they… Read the whole commentary →