The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 124:4

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Then the waters had overwhelmed us. A sudden and startling change of metaphor. In the quick transition of Oriental thought, the fire becomes a flood—an irresistible torrent-stream, carrying all before it (comp.

Psalms 18:4; Psalms 144:7). The stream had gone over our soul; i.e. "had mounted up over our heads, and stifled our breath of life."

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