Psalms 123:4
perhaps the waters would have engulfed us.
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In Context
3perhaps they would have swallowed us alive. When their fury was enraged against us,
5Our soul has passed through a torrent. Perhaps, our soul had even passed through intolerable water.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:42And when the Philistine had seen and considered David, he despised him. For he was a youth, ruddy and of handsome appearance.
Job 12:5The lamp that is despised in the thoughts of the rich is ready for the appointed time.
Psalms 73:5as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,
Isaiah 32:9You opulent women, rise up and listen to my voice! O confident daughters, play close attention to my eloquence!
Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been fertile from his youth, and he has rested amid his brood. And he has not been transferred from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into the transmigration. Therefore, his taste has remained with him, and his scent has not changed.
Jeremiah 48:29We have listened to the arrogance of Moab; he is very proud: his exaltation, and arrogance, and pride, and the loftiness of his heart.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 123:2-4
Grateful Acknowledgments. 1 Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us. 3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord , have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud. We have… Read the whole commentary →