Psalms 124 · Verse 5

Psalms 124:5

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Psalms 124:5, King James Version

Psalms 124:5 in other translations

BSBthen the raging waters would have swept us away.
WEBThen the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
ASVThen the proud waters had gone over our soul.
YLTThen passed over our soul had the proud waters.
DARBYThen the proud waters had gone over our soul.
BBEYes, the waters of pride would have gone over our soul.
WebsterThen the proud waters had gone over our soul.

What does Psalms 124:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 124:4-5

4-5. (Compare Psa 18:4, 16).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 Then the proud waters - The proud Haman had nearly brought the flood of desolation over our lives.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 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.

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Psalms 124:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֲ֭זַי'A.zaithenH233
עָבַ֣ר'a.Varit had passedH5674
עַל\־'al-overH5921
נַפְשֵׁ֑נוּnaf.She.nuself ourH5315
הַ֝מַּ֗יִםha.Ma.yimthe watersH4325
הַזֵּֽידוֹנִֽים\׃ha.Zei.do.Nim<the> ragingH2121

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 124:5

  • Job 38:11

    And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

  • Jeremiah 5:22

    Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

  • Psalms 93:3-4

    The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the proud.
93:3,4; Job 38:11; Jer 5:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 124:4

    Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

  • Psalms 124:5

    Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

  • Psalms 124:6

    Blessed be the Lord, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

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Psalms 124:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Hubieran entonces pasado sobre nuestra alma las aguas soberbias.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Alors les eaux orgueilleuses auraient passé sur notre âme.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Dann würden über unsere Seele gegangen sein die stolzen Wasser.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Declinantes autem in obligationes, adducet Dominus cum operantibus iniquitatem. Pax super Israël!