Psalm 124:4
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New International Version (©1984)
the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the waters would have engulfed us, The stream would have swept over our soul;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the floodwaters would have swept us away. An [overflowing] stream would have washed us away.

King James Bible
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

American King James Version
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

American Standard Version
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;

Bible in Basic English
We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;

Douay-Rheims Bible
perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

Darby Bible Translation
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, a torrent had gone over our soul;

English Revised Version
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

World English Bible
then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

Young's Literal Translation
Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,

Geneva Study Bible

Then the {c} waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

(c) He uses proper similitudes to express the great danger that the Church was in, and out of which God miraculously delivered them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4, 5. (Compare Ps 18:4, 16).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

124:1-5 God suffers the enemies of his people sometimes to prevail very far against them, that his power may be seen the more in their deliverance. Happy the people whose God is Jehovah, a God all-sufficient. Besides applying this to any particular deliverance wrought in our days and the ancient times, we should have in our thoughts the great work of redemption by Jesus Christ, by which believers were rescued from Satan.


Job 22:11 Or darkness, so that you cannot see, And an abundance of water covers you.
Psalm 18:16 He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
Psalm 32:6 Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.
Psalm 69:2 I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.
Psalm 144:7 Stretch forth Your hand from on high; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hand of aliens (NASB ©1995)

Covered Engulfed Flood Overflowed Overwhelmed Passed Soul Stream Streams Swept Torrent Waters


Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

the waters Ps 18:4 42:7 69:15 Isa 8:7,8 28:2 59:19 Jer 46:7,8 Da 9:26 Re 12:15,16 17:1,15

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