Psalms 124:3
when their anger flared against us,
What it says
When the enemy's anger flared, they would have been swallowed alive.
What it is doing
This verse pictures the danger as violent human rage ready to consume.
In context
1A song of ascents. Of David. 2if the LORD had not been on our side 3when their anger flared against us, 4then the floods would have engulfed us, 5then the raging waters 6Blessed be the LORD, 7We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; 8Our help is in the name of the LORD,