Psalms 124:5

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The raging water would have overwhelmed us.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:11 : 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The waves roar, O LORD, the waves roar, the waves roar and crash. 4 Above the sound of the surging water, and the mighty waves of the sea, the LORD sits enthroned in majesty.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 “You should fear me!” says the LORD.“You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”

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    1A song of ascents, by David.“If the LORD had not been on our side”– let Israel say this!–

    2if the LORD had not been on our side, when men attacked us,

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  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.

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  • Ps 124:6-7
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    77%

    6The LORD deserves praise, for he did not hand us over as prey to their teeth.

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    5Water engulfed me up to my neck; the deep ocean surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head.

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    5The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.

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    10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

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    14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

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    15But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters.

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    6The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.