Psalms 124:4
For our soul is greatly filled: we are a reproach to the rich, and contempt to the proud.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
In Context
3Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt.
Cross References
Psalms 18:4Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
Psalms 32:6For 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.
Psalms 42:8Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.
Psalms 69:15Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Isaiah 8:7Therefore 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 59:19And 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:
Matthew Henry on Psalms 124:2-6
The Security of God's People. 1 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel say; 2 If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men rose up against us: 3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us: 4 Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul: 5 Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. The people of God, being here called upon to praise God for their deliverance, are to take notice, I. Of the malice of men, by which they… Read the whole commentary →