Text -- Psalms 124:4 (NET)

124:4 The water would have overpowered us; the current would have overwhelmed us.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 124:4

¹ tn Or “stream.”

² tn Heb “would have passed over.”

³ tn Heb “our being.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronoun, especially in poetry (see BDB 660 s.v. נֶפֶשׁ 4.a).