Translations
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
then they would have swallowed us alive when their wrath blazed against us;
then they would have swallowed us whole, consumed in the furnace of their fury;
when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
Footnotes
"Swallowed alive" (bala'unu chayyim) is the language of a predator engulfing prey whole and breathing. Charot appam literally means the burning/flaring of the nose—the Hebrew idiom for rage. F.O.G. translates plainly; F.O.G.M. heightens the thermal imagery to "furnace of their fury" to sustain the emotional intensity and anticipate the beast-and-prey metaphor of v.6.

