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

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

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

Berean Standard Bible
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

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

New King James Version
Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.

New American Standard Bible
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.

NASB 1995
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

NASB 1977
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Thy waterfalls; All Thy breakers and Thy waves have rolled over me.

Legacy Standard Bible
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

Amplified Bible
Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

Christian Standard Bible
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept 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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves have gone over me.

Contemporary English Version
Your vicious waves have swept over me like an angry ocean or a roaring waterfall.

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

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

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; All Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.

Literal Standard Version
Deep is calling to deep | At the noise of Your waterspouts, | All Your breakers and Your billows passed over me.

Majority Standard Bible
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

New American Bible
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your torrents, and all your waves and breakers sweep over me.

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

New Revised Standard Version
Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your cataracts; all your waves and your billows have gone over me.

New Heart English Bible
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your breakers and waves have swept 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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Blessed is He who Cares for the Poor
6O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar. 7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me. 8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.…

Cross References
Psalm 69:1
Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck.

Psalm 69:2
I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me.

Psalm 88:7
Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

Psalm 130:1
Out of the depths I cry to You, O LORD!

Jeremiah 4:20
Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

Jonah 2:3
For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Deep calleth

Job 1:14-19
And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: …

Job 10:17
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

Jeremiah 4:20
Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.

water-spouts.

all thy

Psalm 69:14,15
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters…

Psalm 88:7,15-17
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah…

Lamentations 3:53-55
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me…

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(7) Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts.--Better, Flood calleth unto flood at the noise of thy cataracts. The exile is describing what was before his eyes, and in his ears. There can, therefore, be little doubt that, as Dean Stanley observed, this image was furnished by the windings and rapids of the Jordan, each hurrying to dash itself with yet fiercer vehemence of sounding water over some opposing ledge of rocks "in cataract after cataract to the sea." Thus every step taken on that sorrowful journey offered an emblem of the griefs accumulating on the exile's heart. The word rendered waterspout only occurs besides in 2Samuel 5:8, where the Authorised Version has "gutter," but might translate "watercourse."

All thy waves and thy billows.--From derivation, breakers and rollers. The poet forgets the source of his image in its intensity, and from the thought of the cataract of woes passes on to the more general one of "a sea of troubles," the waves of which break upon him or roll over his head. The image is common in all poetry. (Comp. "And as a sea of ills urges on its waves; one falling, another, with huge (literally, third) crest, rising."--'sch., Seven against Thebes, 759.)

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).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Deep
תְּהֽוֹם־ (tə·hō·wm-)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep

calls
ק֭וֹרֵא (qō·w·rê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

deep
תְּה֣וֹם (tə·hō·wm)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 8415: An abyss, the deep

in the roar
לְק֣וֹל (lə·qō·wl)
Preposition | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

of Your waterfalls;
צִנּוֹרֶ֑יךָ (ṣin·nō·w·re·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6794: A culvert

all
כָּֽל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

Your breakers
מִשְׁבָּרֶ֥יךָ (miš·bā·re·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4867: A breaker (of the sea)

and waves
וְ֝גַלֶּ֗יךָ (wə·ḡal·le·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 1530: Something rolled, a heap of stone, dung, a spring of water

have rolled
עָבָֽרוּ׃ (‘ā·ḇā·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

over me.
עָלַ֥י (‘ā·lay)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against


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