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Our Help Is in the Name of the LORD

Psalms 124:5

In 11 translations

BSB
then the raging waters would have swept us away.
KJV
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
WEB
Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
ASV
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
LSV
Then proud waters had passed over our soul.
YLT
Then passed over our soul had the proud waters.
DBY
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
DRC123:5
Our soul hath passed through a torrent: perhaps our soul had passed through a water insupportable.
GNV
Then had the swelling waters gone ouer our soule.
JPS
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.'
LXXE123:5
Yea, our soul would have gone under the overwhelming water.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֲ֭זַי עָבַ֣ר עַל־נַפְשֵׁ֑נוּ הַ֝מַּ֗יִם הַזֵּֽידוֹנִֽים׃
LXX-Br123:5
Ἄρα διῆλθεν ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ἀνυπόστατον.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
  • Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but…
  • Psalms 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves. Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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