'Rivers' or 'floods' signify temptations. 'Rivers' signify truths in abundance serving the rational self, and so, the understanding, for the purpose of doctrine and life.

In Isaiah 43:2, 'rivers' and 'waters' signify difficulties and falsities.

(Izinkomba: Apocalypse Revealed 683)

In Psalm 68:30, the calf of the people worshiped as a god signifies affections for knowing falsities. It also signifies the goods of the church in the natural man. (Arcana Coelestia 9391[16])