Psalms 124:5

World English Bible (2000)

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:11 : 11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 124:1-4
    4 verses
    94%

    1 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

    2 if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

    3 then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

    4 then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

  • Ps 123:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

    4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

  • Ps 124:6-7
    2 verses
    77%

    6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

    7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

  • 2 Sam 22:5-6
    2 verses
    77%

    5 For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

    6 The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death caught me.

  • 5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head.

  • Ps 69:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

    2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

  • 5 The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.

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

  • 7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

  • 26 They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

  • 10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  • 14 As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

  • 3 For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

  • 6 He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.

  • 17 He sent from on high and he took me. He drew me out of many waters.

  • 16 The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

  • 12 You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

  • Ps 93:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

    4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.

  • 11 The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

  • 53 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

  • 5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

  • 16 He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

  • 14 God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

  • 4 The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

  • 15 Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

  • 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

  • 10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid. The storm of waters passed by. The deep roared and lifted up its hands on high.

  • 3 The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

  • 3 though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.

  • 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

  • 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • Lam 5:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

    5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

  • 16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

  • 11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • 42 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

  • 8 With the blast of your nostrils, the waters were piled up. The floods stood upright as a heap. The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

  • 25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

  • 11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

  • 15 You trampled the sea with your horses, churning mighty waters.

  • 6 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.