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Psalms 42:7
7One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.
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
5Why are you discouraged, my soul? Why are you so restless? Put your hope in God, because I will still praise him. He is my savior and my God. 6My soul is discouraged. That is why I will remember you in the land of Jordan, on the peaks of Hermon, on Mount Mizar. One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me. 8The Lord commands his mercy during the day, and at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. 9I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk around in mourning while the enemy oppresses 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 messenger came to Job. He said, “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
- Job 10:17You keep finding new witnesses against me. You keep increasing your anger toward me. You keep bringing new armies against me.
- Jeremiah 4:20One disaster follows another. The whole land is ruined. My tents are suddenly destroyed. Their curtains are torn in an instant.
- Ezekiel 7:26One disaster will happen after another. One rumor will follow another. People will ask for a vision from a prophet. The teachings of priests and the advice of leaders will disappear.
- Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the mud. Do not let me sink ⌞into it⌟. I want to be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water.
- Psalms 88:7Your rage lies heavily on me. You make all your waves pound on me. Selah
- Lamentations 3:53They threw me alive into a pit and threw rocks at me.
- Jonah 2:3You threw me into the deep, into the depths of the sea, and water surrounded me. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept 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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