Psaumes 124:4

Louis Segond

Alors les eaux nous auraient submergés, Les torrents auraient passé sur notre âme;

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Alors les eaux nous auraient submergés, un torrent eût passé sur notre âme.

Darby's French Translation
Alors les eaux nous eussent submergés, un torrent eût passé sur notre âme;

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Dès-lors les eaux se fussent débordées sur nous, un torrent eût passé sur notre âme.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the waters: Psalms 18:4, Psalms 42:7, Psalms 69:15, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 28:2, Isaiah 59:19, Jeremiah 46:7, Jeremiah 46:8, Daniel 9:26, Revelation 12:15, Revelation 12:16, Revelation 17:1, Revelation 17:15

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:17 - he drew Job 22:11 - abundance Psalms 32:6 - in the floods Psalms 69:14 - out of Psalms 143:4 - is my spirit Lamentations 3:54 - Waters

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the waters had overwhelmed us,.... People, comparable to waters for their multitude, Strength, force, and impetuosity; which bear down all before them, and against which there is no standing; which, like the waters of the flood, overflow and destroy all they pass over. These are the floods of ungodly men, which are very destructive and terrible; see Revelation 17:15; together with all those reproaches, afflictions, and persecutions, which come along with them; which the presence of God only can bear up his people under, and carry them through, Song of Solomon 8:7;

the stream had gone over our soul; and so deprived them of life; the whole force of the enemy; which, like a stream, flows in with great strength and rapidity, when a breach is made and spreads itself, Arama interprets it of the stream of the Egyptians, and restrains it to them, their armies and forces; but it rather designs others, and the enemies of God's people in general, which threaten their ruin, even their very souls and lives: it may be applied to the stream of corruptions, the flood of temptation and flow of persecutions, such as the flood the dragon cast out of his mouth after the woman; which, were it not for divine grace and assistance, would destroy the saints, who have no might against this great force, 2 Chronicles 20:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then the waters had overwhelmed us - Our destruction would have been as if the waves of the ocean had overwhelmed us.

The stream had gone over our soul - The torrent would have swept us away. Compare Psalms 18:4, Psalms 18:16.