The waves of death engulfed me; the currents ¹  of chaos ²  overwhelmed me. ³ 

Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

The waves ¹  of death engulfed me, the currents ²  of chaos ³  overwhelmed me. ⁴ 

as water wears away stones, and torrents ¹  wash away the soil, ²  so you destroy man’s hope. ³ 

You broke open the spring and the stream; ¹  you dried up perpetually flowing rivers. ² 

Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the wadis of Gaash,

so that they had to live ¹  in the dry stream beds, ²  in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

He will not look on the streams, ¹  the rivers, which are the torrents ²  of honey and butter. ³ 

O Lord, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished. ¹ 

Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions ¹  like a stream that never dries up.

The sluice gates ¹  are opened; the royal palace is deluged ²  and dissolves. ³ 

I will judge him with plague and bloodshed. I will rain down on him, his troops and the many peoples who are with him a torrential downpour, hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

My brothers ¹  have been as treacherous ²  as a seasonal stream, ³  and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams ⁴  that flow away. ⁵ 

A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

Yes, ¹  he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?”

When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. ¹  The great deep ²  shouts out; it lifts its hands high. ³ 

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month – on that day all the fountains of the great deep ¹  burst open and the floodgates of the heavens ²  were opened.

Surging waters cannot quench love; floodwaters ¹  cannot overflow it. If someone were to offer all his possessions ²  to buy love, ³  the offer ⁴  would be utterly despised. ⁵ 

Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones ¹  will fall and a violent wind will break out. ² 

“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.