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Psalms 42:7
7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.
Context of Psalms 42:7
5Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. 6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 8By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. 9I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”
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 and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
- Job 10:17You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.
- Jeremiah 4:20Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are destroyed, my shelter in a moment.
- Ezekiel 7:26Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will go searching for a vision from the prophet, priestly instruction in the law will cease, the counsel of the elders will come to an end.
- Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the mire, do not let me sink; deliver me from those who hate me, from the deep waters.
- Psalms 88:7Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.
- Lamentations 3:53They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
- Jonah 2:3You hurled me into the depths, into the very heart of the seas, and the currents swirled about me; all your waves and breakers 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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