Psalm 124:4
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Cross-references
In Psalm 18:4, the same flood imagery describes being overwhelmed by deadly enemies — a parallel cry for deliverance.
In Psalm 42:7, 'all your breakers and waves have gone over me' uses identical drowning imagery for deep distress.
In Psalm 69:15, the psalmist pleads 'let not the floodwater overflow me' — the same metaphor of being overwhelmed by trouble.
Psalm 69:14 pleads for deliverance from deep waters and enemies, directly echoing the cry for rescue from overwhelming flood.
Psalm 32:6 assures that great waters will not reach the godly who pray, offering protection from the same flood threat.
In Isaiah 8:8, the flood 'reaches even to the neck' — continuing the same picture of overwhelming judgment from Assyria.
Revelation 17:15 explicitly interprets the waters as multitudes and nations, making the flood a symbol of overwhelming enemy forces.
Revelation 12:16 has the earth swallowing the flood, providing deliverance from the same danger – a rescue echo of the psalm’s threatened overwhelm.
Revelation 12:15 shows the dragon spewing a flood to overwhelm the woman, directly paralleling enemy attack as threatening waters.
In Jeremiah 46:7, Egypt is compared to the Nile rising like 'rivers whose waters surge' — a parallel flood metaphor for a threatening nation.
In Isaiah 59:19, 'when the enemy comes in like a flood' — the same image of hostile forces overwhelming like waters.
In Isaiah 28:2, the Lord's judgment is 'like a storm of mighty, overflowing waters' — the same metaphor for divine destruction.
In Isaiah 8:7, the Lord brings the Assyrian army like 'mighty and many waters' that overflow — the same flood imagery for an enemy.
Lamentations 3:54 uses the same waters-overwhelming imagery — 'waters flowed over my head' — echoing the near-drowning experience.
2 Samuel 22:17 describes God drawing David out of deep waters, a rescue that parallels the deliverance from overwhelming flood here.
Jeremiah 46:8 uses flood imagery for Egypt's invasion, similar to waters overwhelming in the psalm.
Job 22:11 speaks of a flood of waters covering someone as divine judgment, using the same image of being overwhelmed by calamity.