When the melting water from the snow peaks of the Hermon comes down in spring, the fountains of the Jordan can be haunting. Gushing streams of water everywhere. An overwhelming roaring sound. And woe if that churning water takes you. Then your life is in great danger.
What the poet says is striking. He speaks of all your streams of water
and your waves.
He feels God’s hand in that threatening water. He recognizes God is working in this violence. Again, words from the book Jonah are fitting: For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me
(Jonah 2:3).
That is how intense one can sometimes experience it on earth. It is then advisable to look at the cross of our Saviour Jesus. There on Calvary all the waves of God’s wrath were poured on him, because of the sins of man. Therefore, it became immensely difficult for Jesus. Remember then, that he bore our curse and repudiation so that we might be forever sheltered in the love of our heavenly Father.
7 Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.