◄ Psalm 124:5 {123:5} ►
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Good News Translation
the raging torrent would have drowned us."

New Revised Standard Version
then over us would have gone the raging waters.

Contemporary English Version
of high and roaring waves."

New American Bible
then seething water would have drowned us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

the proud

Psalm 93:3,4 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves, . . .

Job 38:11 And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Jeremiah 5:22 Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

Context
Our Help is in the Name of the LORD
…4Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up. 5Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.6Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us to be a prey to their teeth.…
Cross References
Job 22:11
And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

Job 38:11
And I said: Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.

Psalm 32:6
For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

Psalm 69:15
Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Psalm 124:4
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