Parallel Verses New International Version Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept 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. Darby Bible Translation Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers 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. Psalm 42:7 Parallel Commentary Clarke's Commentary on the BibleDeep calleth unto deep - One wave of sorrow rolls on me, impelled by another. There is something dismal in the sound of the original; תהום אל תהום קורא tehom el tehom kore; something like "And hollow howlings hung in air." Thompson's Ellenore. Or like Horner's well known verse: - Βη δ' ακεων παρα θινα πολυφοισβοιο θαλασσης. "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 upon the shore, are surprisingly represented in the sound of the two last words. The psalmist seems to represent himself as cast away at sea; and by wave impelling wave, is carried to a rock, around which the surges dash in all directions, forming hollow sounds in the creeks and caverns. At last, several waves breaking over him, tear him away from that rock to which he clung, and where he had a little before found a resting-place, and, apparently, an escape from danger. "All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me;" he is then whelmed in the deep, and God alone can save him. Waterspouts - A large tube formed of clouds by means of the electric fluid, the base being uppermost, and the point of the tube let down perpendicularly from the clouds. This tube has a particular kind of circular motion at the point; and being hollow within, attracts vast quantities of water, which it pours down in torrents upon the earth. These spouts are frequent on the coast of Syria; and Dr. Shaw has often seen them at Mount Carmel. No doubt the psalmist had often seen them also, and the ravages made by them. I have seen vast gullies cut out of the sides of mountains by the fall of waterspouts, and have seen many of them in their fullest activity. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Deep calleth water-spouts. A water-spout is a large tube formed of clouds by means of the electric fluid, the base being uppermost, and the point let down perpendicularly form the clouds. It has a particular kind of circular motion at the point; and, being hollow within, attracts vast quantities of water, which it frequently pours down in torrents upon the earth. These spouts are frequent on the coast of Syria; and no doubt the Psalmist had often seen them, and the ravages which they made. all thy Psalm 88:7,15-17 Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah... Lamentations 3:53-55 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone on me... Library July 16. "As the Hart Panteth after the Waterbrooks, So Panteth My Soul after Thee, O God" (Ps. Xlii. 1). "As the hart panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God" (Ps. xlii. 1). First in order to a consecrated life there must be a sense of need, the need of purity, of power, and of a greater nearness to the Lord. There often comes in Christian life a second conviction. It is not now a sense of guilt and God's wrath so much as of the power and evil of inward sin, and the unsatisfactoriness of the life the soul is living. It usually comes from the deeper revelation of God's truth, … Rev. A. B. Simpson—Days of Heaven Upon Earth Be not Far from Me, O My Strength, Dialogue ii. --The Unconfounded. The Exile. Cross References 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. 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