Psalms 124:5
3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
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 said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Read in contextJeremiah 5:22
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
Read in contextPsalms 93:3–4
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
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