waters - (So 2Sa 5:20). But it is better to retain the image of Job 30:12, Job 30:13. “They came [upon me] as through a wide breach,” namely, made by the besiegers in the wall of a fortress (Isa 30:13) [Maurer].
in the desolation - “Amidst the crash” of falling masonry, or “with a shout like the crash” of, etc.