Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Insupportable. Without bottom, or beyond our strength, anupostaton. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "Then the swelling waters it had passed over our soul. "(Montanus) (Calmet)
St. Jerome has, "perhaps they", which is more correct. See Psalm lxviii. 3. (Haydock)
A torrent implies sudden great troubles. (Worthington)