Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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.
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