Psalms 124:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 124:5

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

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ASV

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

WEB

then the raging waters would have swept us away.

YLT

Then passed over our soul had the proud waters.

DBT

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Cross-references

4 verses on the floor

Psalms 31:20
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Jeremiah 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?
Job 38:11
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Psalms 93:3–4
The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices1

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

The epithet proud added to waters denotes insolent enemies. The figure is changed to that of a rapacious wild beast (Ps 3:7), and then of a fowler (Ps 91:3), and complete escape is denoted by breaking the net.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Words1

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H2333× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PSA 124:5JER 5:22 PRO 8:29
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PSA 124:5JER 5:22 JOB 38:10-11
PSA 124:5JER 5:22 PSA 104:9
PSA 124:5JER 5:22 JOB 26:10
PSA 124:5JER 5:22 DEU 28:58
PSA 124:5JOB 38:11 PSA 89:9
PSA 124:5JOB 38:11 MRK 4:39-41
PSA 124:5JOB 38:11 PSA 65:6-7

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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