Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Then they had swallowed us up quick - i:e., alive, as in Psalms 55:15; Proverbs 1:12. They thought to swallow us up; but it is themselves who shall be swallowed up in their native earth: as Korah and his company were swallowed up alive (Numbers 16:32-33). David used a similar Hebrew term and thought in Psalms 56:2; Psalms 57:3.