Lexicon :: Strong's H7857 - šāṭap̄

Water wears away the stones,

Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,

So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.

I have sunk in deep mire, where there is no foothold;

I have come into deep waters, where a flood overwhelms me.

Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me,

Nor the deep waters swallow me up,

Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.

“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out

And the streams overflowed;

Can He give bread also?

Or will He provide meat for His people?”

Then the waters would have engulfed us,

The torrent would have swept over our soul;

“Many waters cannot quench love,

Nor can rivers drown it.

If a man would offer all the riches of his house for love,

It would be utterly scorned and despised.”

“Then it will [fn]sweep on into Judah; it will overflow and pass through [the hills],

Reaching even to the neck [of which Jerusalem is the head],

And its outstretched wings (the armies of Assyria) will fill the width of Your land, O Immanuel.

For though your people, O Israel, may be as the sand of the sea,

Only a remnant within them will return;

The destruction is determined [it is decided and destined for completion], overflowing with justice (righteous punishment).

Listen carefully, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent [the Assyrian];

Like a tempest of hail, a disastrous storm,

Like a tempest of mighty overflowing waters,

He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,

And with Sheol (the place of the dead) we have made an agreement,

When the overwhelming scourge passes by, it will not reach us,

For we have made lies our refuge and we have concealed ourselves in deception.”

“I will make justice the measuring line

And righteousness the mason’s level;

Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies

And waters will flood over the secret [hiding] place.

His breath is like an overflowing river,

Which reaches to the neck,

To sift the nations back and forth in a sieve [of disaster],

And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which leads to ruin.

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;

And through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you.

When you walk through fire, you will not be scorched,

Nor will the flame burn you.

For the LORD says this, “Behold, I extend peace to her (Jerusalem) like a river,

And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;

And you will be nursed, you will be carried on her hip and [playfully] rocked on her knees.

“I have listened and heard,

But they have spoken what is not right;

No man repented of his wickedness,

Saying, ‘What have I done?’

Everyone turns to his [individual] course,

As the horse rushes like a torrent into battle.

“Behold, waters are going to rise out of the north (Babylonia)

And become an overflowing stream

And overflow the land and all that is in it,

The city and those who live in it.

Then the people will cry out,

And all the inhabitants of the land [of Philistia] will wail.

“His sons will prepare for battle and assemble a multitude of great forces; which will keep on coming and overflow [the land], and pass through, so that they may again wage war as far as his fortress.

“At the end time the king of the South will push and attack him (the Antichrist), and the king of the North will storm against him with chariots and horsemen and with many ships; and he will enter countries, overwhelm them and pass through.