² tn Heb “the flood, water.”

⁴ sn Flood here is a metaphor for sudden destruction.

² tn Heb “with my tears my bed I flood/melt.”

¹ tn Heb “fierceness of wrath and outpouring [= flood] of anger.” A number of English versions use “flood” here (e.g., NASB, NCV, NLT).

⁴ sn The picture here is of a river overflowing its banks and causing flooding and chaos.

³ sn The language reflects the account of the Noahic Flood (see Gen 7:11).

⁴ tn Heb “and all flesh will not be cut off again by the waters of the flood.”

² tn Heb “the waters prevailed 15 cubits upward and they covered the mountains.” Obviously, a flood of 20 feet did not cover the mountains; the statement must mean the flood rose about 20 feet above the highest mountain.

⁴ sn Like that flood came and destroyed them all, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

¹ tn Heb “a heavy rain of waters passes by.” Perhaps the flash floods produced by the downpour are in view here.

⁴ sn The movement of the quaking earth is here compared to the annual flooding and receding of the Nile River.

² tc The present translation reads הִשָּׁטֹף (hishatof), Niphal infinitive absolute of שָׁטַף (shataf, “to overflow”), for the MT הַשֶּׁטֶף (hashetef, “flood”).

¹ tn The Hebrew verb שָׁחַת (shakhat, “to destroy”) was used earlier to describe the effect of the flood.

¹ sn Like the flood that came and took them all away, the coming judgment associated with the Son of Man will condemn many.

¹ tn The Hebrew verb translated “wiped out” is used to describe the judgment of the Flood (Gen 6:7; 7:4, 23).

² tn Heb “and streams”; KJV “floods.” The verb “cause…to flow” is supplied in the second line for clarity and for stylistic reasons.

² sn The verse is focusing on the two extremes of drought and flood. Both are described as being under the power of God.

³ tn The verb שָׁחָת (shakhat, “to destroy”) is repeated yet again, only now in an infinitival form expressing the purpose of the flood.

⁴ sn Obliterated. The use of the term “destroy” (שַׁחֵת, shakhet) is reminiscent of the Noahic flood (Gen 6:13). Both at the flood and in Sodom the place was obliterated by catastrophe and only one family survived (see C. Westermann, Genesis, 2:178).

³ sn Like the days of Noah, the time of the flood in Gen 6:5-8:22, the judgment will come as a surprise as people live their day to day lives.