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5Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
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And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. …
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?
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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