The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, [1599], at sacred-texts.com
(a) He shows that God was ready to help at need and that there was no other way to be saved, but by this means alone.
Then they had swallowed us up (b) quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
(b) So unable were we to resist.
Then the (c) waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
(c) He uses proper similitudes to express the great danger that the Church was in, and out of which God miraculously delivered them.
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the (d) snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
(d) For the wicked not only furiously rage against the faithful, but craftily imagined to destroy them.