Psalms 124:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Yes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:11 : 11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry. 4 The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 124:1-4
    4 verses
    94%

    1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);

    2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men came up against us;

    3 They would have made a meal of us while still living, in the heat of their wrath against us:

    4 We would have been covered by the waters; the streams would have gone over our soul;

  • Ps 123:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

    4 For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

  • Ps 124:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 Praise be to the Lord, who has not let us be wounded by their teeth.

    7 Our soul has gone free like a bird out of the net of those who would take her: the net is broken, and we are free.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;

    6 The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.

  • 5 And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?

  • Ps 69:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

    2 My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

  • 5 They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.

  • 54 Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

  • 7 Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

  • 26 The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.

  • 10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.

  • 14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

  • 3 In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.

  • 6 The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.

  • 17 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • 16 The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

  • 12 You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

  • Ps 93:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

    4 The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

  • 11 And the waters went over their haters; all of them came to an end.

  • 53 He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

  • 5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

  • 16 He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

  • 14 O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them.

  • 4 The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

  • 15 Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

  • 19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

  • 5 Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.

  • 10 The mountains saw you and were moved with fear; the clouds were streaming with water: the voice of the deep was sounding; the sun did not come up, and the moon kept still in her place.

  • 3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

  • 3 Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)

  • 25 For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

  • 4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Lam 5:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.

    5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

  • 16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

  • 11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • 42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.

  • 8 By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

  • 25 Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

  • 11 By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.

  • 15 The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.

  • 6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;