Psalms 124:3

“Then they had swallowed us up quick, etc.] Or “alive”; as the earth swallowed up Korah and his company; or as the fish swallowed up Jonah; or rather as ravenous beasts swallow their prey; to which the allusion is. The people of God are comparable to sheep and lambs, and such like innocent creatures: and the wicked to lions, tigers, wolves, bears, and such like beasts of prey that devour living creatures; when their wrath was kindled against us; which is cruel and outrageous; there is no standing against it, nor before it; it is like a fierce flame of fire that burns furiously, and there is no stopping it; none but God can restrain it.”

“Then they had swallowed us up quick - There was no other help, and ruin - utter ruin - would have soon come upon us. The word quick here means alive; and the idea is derived from persons swallowed up in an earthquake, or by the opening of the earth, as in the case of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Numbers 16:32-33. Compare Psalms 106:17. The meaning here is, that they would have been destroyed as if they were swallowed up by the opening of the earth; that is, there would have been complete destruction. When their wrath was kindled against us - Hebrew, In the kindling of their wrath against us. Wrath is often represented in the Scriptures as burning or heated - as that which consumes all before…”

“Then they: Psa 27:2, Psa 35:25, Psa 56:1, Psa 56:2, Psa 57:3, Psa 74:8, Psa 83:4; Est 3:6, Est 3:12, Est 3:13 swallowed: Num 16:30-34; Pro 1:12; Jer 51:34; Jon 1:17 their wrath: Psa 76:10; Sa1 20:30-33; Dan 3:19; Mat 2:16; Act 9:2 Psalms 124:4”