For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
For this (is as) the waters of Noah unto me - I am about to do the same in this instance as in Noah's flood. As I swore then that it should not return (Genesis 8:21; Genesis 9:11), and I kept that promise, so I swear now to my people, and will perform my promise, that there shall be no return of the deluge of my wrath upon them. Lowth, on the authority of the Vulgate, Chaldaic, and Syriac, reads (the same will I do now as) in the days of Noah. But the weight of manuscripts, and the Septuagint and Arabic read as the English version, and the very next clause, "for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah," etc., favours this.