waters prevailed] When they daily increased, those that more feared drowning then their damnation before, used no doubt many meanes for their safetie removing from the lower roomes to the higher, from the floores to the tops of houses, and from houses to trees, from the valleys to the hils, and some swimming towards the Arke desired that refuge which before they derided; but the waters so prevailed against all their preservatives that none of them would serve either to save them altogether, or to reprieve their lives while the raine powred down; and so the water floods did overflow them, and the deepe swallowed them up, though (as David prayed, Psalms 69:15.) Noah and his family were preserved from them.