Psalms 124:5
then the raging waters would have swept us away.
BSB
ASV
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
KJV
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. The wicked, who, through their pride, persecute the poor saints: these proud tyrants and persecutors would prevail over them, to their ruin and destruction; who, for their number, force, and strength, and especially for their pride and haughtiness, are like to the strong, boisterous, and swelling waves of the sea, were they not stopped and bounded by him who has said, Thus far shall ye go, and no farther, Job 38:11.
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. The figure represents the waves as proud, and so they seem to be when they overleap the bulwarks of a frail bark, and threaten every moment to sink her. The opposition of men is usually embittered by a haughty scorn which derides all our godly efforts as mere fanaticism or obstinate ignorance. In all the persecutions of the church a cruel contempt has largely mingled with the oppression, and this is overpowering to the soul.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Jeremiah 5:22Do 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…
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when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name—the LORD your God—
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Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
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You rule the raging sea; when its waves mount up, You still them.
Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.
You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might.