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4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
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And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? …
Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: …
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)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 were reduced to the very brink of ruin. Let Israel say that there was but a step between them and death: the more desperate the disease appears to have been the more does the skill of the Physician appear in the cure. Observe, 1. Whence the threatening danger ca…
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