Psalm 42:7
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New International Version (©2011)
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Deep waters call out to what is deeper still; at the roar of your waterfalls all your breakers and your waves swirled over me.

NET Bible (©2006)
One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
The Deep to deep calls The Voice to the voice of the waters of your fountains. All your storms and your waves passed over me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.

American King James Version
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.

American Standard Version
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.

Darby Bible Translation
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

English Revised Version
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Deep calleth to deep at the noise of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

World English Bible
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Young's Literal Translation
Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

42:6-11 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 storm, and turn midnight darkness into the light of noon, the bitterest complaints into joyful praises. Our believing expectation of mercy must quicken our prayers for it. At length, is faith came off conqueror, by encouraging him to trust in the name of the Lord, and to stay himself upon his God. He adds, And my God; this thought enabled him to triumph over all his griefs and fears. Let us never think that the God of our life, and the Rock of our salvation, has forgotten us, if we have made his mercy, truth, and power, our refuge. Thus the psalmist strove against his despondency: at last his faith and hope obtained the victory. Let us learn to check all unbelieving doubts and fears. Apply the promise first to ourselves, and then plead it to God.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts. Blow follows blow. Misfortunes "come not in single file, but in battalions." The imagery may be taken from the local storms that visit the Trans-Jordanic territory (see Lynch, 'Expedition to the Jordan and the Dead Sea;' and Wilson, 'Negeb,' pp. 26, 27). All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me (comp. Psalm 69:1, 2; Psalm 88:7, 17; Psalm 144:7).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of the water spouts,.... By which are meant afflictions, comparable to the deep waters of the sea, for their multitude and overwhelming nature; see Psalm 69:1; these came pouring down, one after another, upon the psalmist: as soon as one affliction over, another came, as in the case of Job; which is signified by one calling to another, and were clamorous, troublesome, and very grievous and distressing;

all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me: with which he seemed to be covered and overwhelmed, as a ship is at sea. It may be observed, that the psalmist calls afflictions God's water spouts, and "his" waves and "his" billows; because they are appointed, sent, ordered, and overruled by him, and made to work for the good of his people: and now, though these might seem to be a just cause of dejection, yet they were not, as appears from Psalm 42:8.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. The roar of successive billows, responding to that of floods of rain, represented the heavy waves of sorrow which overwhelmed him.

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As the Deer Pants for the Water
…6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. 7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterspouts: all your waves and your billows are gone over me. 8Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life. …

Psalm 69:1 For the director of music. To the tune of "Lilies." Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
Psalm 69:2 I sink in the miry depths, where there is no foothold. I have come into the deep waters; the floods engulf me.
Psalm 88:7 Your wrath lies heavily on me; you have overwhelmed me with all your waves.
Psalm 130:1 A song of ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, LORD;
Jeremiah 4:20 Disaster follows disaster; the whole land lies in ruins. In an instant my tents are destroyed, my shelter in a moment.
Jonah 2:3 You 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.