Psalm 124:5
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New International Version (©2011)
the raging waters would have swept us away.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Yes, the raging waters of their fury would have overwhelmed our very lives.

English Standard Version (©2001)
then over us would have gone the raging waters.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
the raging waters would have swept over us.

International Standard Version (©2012)
the swollen waters would have swept us away.

NET Bible (©2006)
The raging water would have overwhelmed us.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And many waters passed over our soul!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then raging water would have washed us away."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

American King James Version
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

American Standard Version
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.

Darby Bible Translation
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

English Revised Version
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

World English Bible
then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

Young's Literal Translation
Then passed over our soul had the proud waters.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

124:1-5 God suffers the enemies of his people sometimes to prevail very far against them, that his power may be seen the more in their deliverance. Happy the people whose God is Jehovah, a God all-sufficient. Besides applying this to any particular deliverance wrought in our days and the ancient times, we should have in our thoughts the great work of redemption by Jesus Christ, by which believers were rescued from Satan.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. "Proud" of effecting our destruction.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. The wicked, who, through their pride, persecute the poor saints: these proud tyrants and persecutors would prevail over them, to their ruin and destruction; who, for their number, force, and strength, and especially for their pride and haughtiness, are like to the strong, boisterous, and swelling waves of the sea, were they not stopped and bounded by him who has said, Thus far shall ye go, and no farther, Job 38:11.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. The epithet proud added to waters denotes insolent enemies.

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Our Help is in the Name of the Lord
…4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. 6Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth. …

Job 22:11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
Job 38:11 when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'?
Psalm 32:6 Therefore let all the faithful pray to you while you may be found; surely the rising of the mighty waters will not reach them.
Psalm 69:15 Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.