Psalm 124:4 {123:4}
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Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.

the waters

Psalm 18:4 The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Psalm 69:15 Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Isaiah 8:7,8 Therefore behold the Lord will bring upon them the waters of the river strong and many, the king of the Assyrians, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and shall overflow all his banks. . . .

Isaiah 28:2 Behold the Lord is mighty and strong, as a storm of hail: a destroying whirlwind, as the violence of many waters overflowing, and sent forth upon a spacious land.

Isaiah 59:19 And they from the west, shall fear the name of the Lord: and they from the rising of the sun, his glory when he shall come as a violent stream, which the spirit of the Lord driveth on:

Jeremiah 46:7,8 Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like those of rivers? . . .

Daniel 9:26 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.

Revelation 12:15,16 And the serpent cast out of his mouth, after the woman, water, as it were a river: that he might cause her to be carried away by the river. . . .

Revelation 17:1,15 And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven vials and spoke with me, saying: Come, I will shew thee the condemnation of the great harlot, who sitteth upon many waters: . . .

Context
Our Help is in the Name of the LORD
3Perhaps they had swallowed us up alive. When their fury was enkindled against us, 4Perhaps the waters had swallowed us up.5Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.…
Cross References
Job 22:11
And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

Psalm 18:4
The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled me.

Psalm 18:16
He sent from on high, and took me: and received me out of many waters.

Psalm 32:6
For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.

Psalm 69:2
I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

Psalm 69:15
Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Psalm 88:17
They have come round about me like water all the day: they have compassed me about together.

Psalm 144:7
Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

Jeremiah 51:55
Because the Lord hath laid Babylon waste, and destroyed out of her the great voice: and their wave shall roar like many waters: their voice hath made a noise:

Lexicon
then
אֲ֭זַי (’ă·zay)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 233: Then, in that case

the floods
הַמַּ֣יִם (ham·ma·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

would have engulfed us,
שְׁטָפ֑וּנוּ (šə·ṭā·p̄ū·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7857: To gush, to inundate, cleanse, to gallop, conquer

the torrent
נַ֗֜חְלָה‪‬ (naḥ·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft

would have overwhelmed
עָבַ֥ר (‘ā·ḇar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

us,
נַפְשֵֽׁנוּ׃ (nap̄·šê·nū)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion


Additional Translations
then the floods would have engulfed us, the torrent would have overwhelmed us,Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;

verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, a torrent had gone over our soul;

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

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

Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,
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