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Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Psalms 42:7 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
  • BSB Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
  • NKJV Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
  • NASB Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.
  • NLT I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 9

  • Jonah 2:3For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.
  • Ps 69:14–15Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.
  • Ps 88:7Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.
  • Lam 3:53–55They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
  • Job 1:14–19that there came a messenger to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
  • Ps 88:15–17I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
  • Jer 4:20Destruction on destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.
  • Ezek 7:26Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
  • Job 10:17You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 42:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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