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مزامير 124:4
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the waters: Psalms 18:4, Psalms 42:7, Psalms 69:15, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 28:2, Isaiah 59:19, Jeremiah 46:7, Jeremiah 46:8, Daniel 9:26, Revelation 12:15, Revelation 12:16, Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:15
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:17 - he drew Job 22:11 - abundance Psalms 32:6 - in the floods Psalms 69:14 - out of Psalms 143:4 - is my spirit Lamentations 3:54 - Waters
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then the waters had overwhelmed us,.... People, comparable to waters for their multitude, Strength, force, and impetuosity; which bear down all before them, and against which there is no standing; which, like the waters of the flood, overflow and destroy all they pass over. These are the floods of ungodly men, which are very destructive and terrible; see Revelation 17:15; together with all those reproaches, afflictions, and persecutions, which come along with them; which the presence of God only can bear up his people under, and carry them through, Song of Solomon 8:7;
the stream had gone over our soul; and so deprived them of life; the whole force of the enemy; which, like a stream, flows in with great strength and rapidity, when a breach is made and spreads itself, Arama interprets it of the stream of the Egyptians, and restrains it to them, their armies and forces; but it rather designs others, and the enemies of God's people in general, which threaten their ruin, even their very souls and lives: it may be applied to the stream of corruptions, the flood of temptation and flow of persecutions, such as the flood the dragon cast out of his mouth after the woman; which, were it not for divine grace and assistance, would destroy the saints, who have no might against this great force, 2 Chronicles 20:12.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then the waters had overwhelmed us - Our destruction would have been as if the waves of the ocean had overwhelmed us.
The stream had gone over our soul - The torrent would have swept us away. Compare Psalms 18:4, Psalms 18:16.