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Psalms 42:7
7I hear your waterfalls make a noise like thunder. It seems like all that water is pouring over me and it knocks me down to the ground.
Psalms 42:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
- New International Version (NIV)Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
Context of Psalms 42:7
5Now I ask myself, ‘Why am I so sad and upset?’ I must wait patiently for God to help me. Then I will praise my God once again, because he is the one who saves me. 6Deep inside me I am very sad. So I will turn to you, my God, from where I am. I will pray to you from Hermon mountain where the Jordan River begins, and from Mizar mountain. I hear your waterfalls make a noise like thunder. It seems like all that water is pouring over me and it knocks me down to the ground. 8Each day, the Lord shows me that he loves me with his faithful love. Each night he gives me a song to sing, as I pray to the God who lives for ever. 9I say to God, who is my high rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me? Why must I be so sad? How much longer must I continue to weep, because my enemies do cruel things to me?’
Read all of Psalms 42Psalms 42:7 word by word
תְּהֽוֹם־אֶל־תְּה֣וֹם ק֭וֹרֵא לְק֣וֹל צִנּוֹרֶ֑יךָ כָּֽל־מִשְׁבָּרֶ֥יךָ וְ֝גַלֶּ֗יךָ עָלַ֥י עָבָֽרוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 42:7
- Job 1:14A servant brought a message to Job. He said, ‘We were using your oxen to plough the fields. Your donkeys were eating grass beside them.
- Job 10:17You find more reasons to attack me. You become more and more angry with me. You attack me with even greater power.
- Jeremiah 4:20They are winning one battle after another! They are destroying the whole land. Our homes are becoming heaps of stones. They quickly knock down our tents.
- Ezekiel 7:26Many troubles will happen, one after another. There will be lots of news about terrible things. People will ask the prophets to tell them what will happen. The priests will not have anything to teach the people. The leaders will not have any good advice.
- Psalms 69:14Save me out of the mud and do not let me sink down into it. Rescue me from the people that hate me. Save me from the deep water.
- Psalms 88:7Your anger is very heavy on me. It is like the waves of the sea that knock me down.
- Lamentations 3:53They put me alive into the well, and they threw stones down on me.
- Jonah 2:3You threw me into the deep water, and I fell into the middle of the sea. The deep water covered me. You sent big waves to roll over me.
Commentaries on Psalms 42:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Deep calleth unto deep - One wave of sorrow rolls on me, impelled by another. There is something dismal in the sound of the original; קורא תהום אל תהום tehom el tehom kore ; something like "And hollow howlings hung in air." Thompson's Ellenore. Or like Horner's well known verse: - ' . "He went silently along the shore of the vastly-sounding sea." Il. i., ver. 34. The rolling up of the waves into a swell, and the break of the top of the swell, and its dash…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Deep calleth unto deep - The language used here would seem to imply that the psalmist was near some floods of water, some rapid river or water-fall, which constituted an appropriate illustration of the waves of sorrow that were rolling over his soul. It is not possible to determine exactly where this was, though, as suggested in the verse above, it would seem most probable that it was in the vicinity of the upper portion of the Jordan; and doubtless the…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-11Verses 6-11 The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies. David saw troubles coming from God's wrath, and that discouraged him. But if one trouble follow hard after another, if all seem to combine for our ruin, let us remember they are all appointed and overruled by the Lord. David regards the Divine favour as the fountain of all the good he looked for. In the Saviour's name let us hope and pray. One word from him will calm every…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7The raging seas, waves, and surging tides bring to mind God's anger (see Psalm 88:7).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. The roar of successive billows, responding to that of floods of rain, represented the heavy waves of sorrow which overwhelmed him.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 42
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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