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Psalms 42:7
7I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep 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 am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and 6my God! Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you— even from distant Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan, from the land of Mount Mizar. I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me. 8But each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life. 9“O God my rock,” I cry, “why have you forgotten me? Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies?”
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 arrived at Job’s home with this news: “Your oxen were plowing, with the donkeys feeding beside them,
- Job 10:17Again and again you witness against me. You pour out your growing anger on me and bring fresh armies against me.
- Jeremiah 4:20Waves of destruction roll over the land, until it lies in complete desolation. Suddenly my tents are destroyed; in a moment my shelters are crushed.
- Ezekiel 7:26Calamity will follow calamity; rumor will follow rumor. They will look in vain for a vision from the prophets. They will receive no teaching from the priests and no counsel from the leaders.
- Psalms 69:14Rescue me from the mud; don’t let me sink any deeper! Save me from those who hate me, and pull me from these deep waters.
- Psalms 88:7Your anger weighs me down; with wave after wave you have engulfed me. Interlude
- Lamentations 3:53They threw me into a pit and dropped stones on me.
- Jonah 2:3You threw me into the ocean depths, and I sank down to the heart of the sea. The mighty waters engulfed me; I was buried beneath your wild and stormy waves.
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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