בָּאוּ מַיִם עַד נֶפֶשׁ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

The situation is critical(unbearable)/the troubles have reached their climax/the situation is unbearable

הגדרה (אנגלית)

By analogy: the situation has reached the limit of what can be endured, patience has run out, an expression of frustration (like water rising to the danger of drowning).

("Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my soul"—Psalms 69:2; and also: "My hoarse, smoky laughter./ Day by day I come to myself like waters up to the soul./ Watching through the window: while this one speaks, another comes"—Haim Gouri / HaBa Acharei; and also: "Is it not that the waters have come up to the soul/ And the evil eye has touched the apple of the eye"—H.N. Bialik / Mikrei Tzion; and also: "So may it be His will,/ As long as the fathers and sons still walk hand in hand among us,/ We shall fear nothing: let 'the waters have reached the soul' be fulfilled:/ Only our enemies will drown in them"—Shaul Tchernichovsky / Kriat Yam Suf)