Psalms 124:5
3 when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
4 then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
then the raging waters would have swept us away.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
7 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- then the raging waters would have swept us away.
- KJV
- Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
- WEB
- Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
- ASV
- Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
- DARBY
- Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
- BLB
- then would have passed over our soul the raging waters.
- ÅB
- da var de gått over vår sjel de stolte vann.
- OTB
- og de rasende vannene ville ha feid over vår sjel.»
- B1930
- da var de gått over vår sjel de stolte vann.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 38:11
and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
Read in contextJeremiah 5:22
Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
Read in contextPsalms 93:3–4
The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
Read in context