KJV King James Version
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
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Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
WEB World English Bible
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
ASV American Standard Version
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Psalm 42
4 When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8 [Yet] the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song [shall be] with me, [and] my prayer unto the God of my life.
9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
10 [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
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Jonah 2:3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.Psalm 69:14-15Deliver 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 88:7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted [me] with all thy waves. Selah.Lamentations 3:53-55They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.Job 1:14-19And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:Ezekiel 7:26Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.Jeremiah 4:20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, [and] my curtains in a moment.Psalm 88:15-17I [am] afflicted and ready to die from [my] youth up: [while] I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.Job 10:17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war [are] against me.
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