For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
For this ... a time ... be found - while the day of grace lasts (Deuteronomy 4:29; Isaiah 55:6). "For this" - because in my case forgiveness immediately followed confession. My experience encourages all to confess heartily their sin, as the sure means of finding in God a hiding-place (Psalms 32:7) from trouble.
Surely. The Hebrew х raq (H7535)] means 'only' (Isaiah 28:19); this and nothing else shall be the result; or, "in the floods" - i:e., in overwhelming judgments for sin, which destroy all others, as the flood did in Noah's days,
They shall not come nigh unto him - only: he alone who ingenuously confesses his sin shall not be reached by the floods of wrath (Psalms 29:10; Psalms 18:16).