then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;
Parallel translations
- KJV Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
- BSB then the floods would have engulfed us, then the torrent would have overwhelmed us,
- NKJV Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, The stream would have gone over our soul;
- NASB Then the waters would have flooded over us, The stream would have swept over our souls;
- NLT The waters would have engulfed us; a torrent would have overwhelmed us.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Rev 17:15He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
- Ps 69:15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
- Rev 12:15–16The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
- Jer 46:7–8“Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
- Ps 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
- Isa 8:7–8now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.
- Isa 59:19So shall they fear Yahweh’s name from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which Yahweh’s breath drives.
- Ps 32:6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
- Isa 28:2Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one. Like a storm of hail, a destroying storm, and like a storm of mighty waters overflowing, he will cast them down to the earth with his hand.
- Ps 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
- Ps 18:4The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
- Dan 9:26After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.
- Rev 17:1One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
- Job 22:11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.
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