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Psalms 124:5
Psalms 124:5 is verse 5 of Psalms chapter 124, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
then the raging waters would have swept us away.
King James Version
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
World English Bible
Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
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Psalms 124:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible
3 when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,
4 then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
5 then the raging waters would have swept us away.
6 Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
7 We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 93:3The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
Psalms 93:4Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.
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 cannot cross it.