Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
- KJV Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone 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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Quick answer
Wave upon wave of trouble sweeps over him like crashing deep. He feels engulfed by overwhelming affliction.
Overview
The imagery of cataracts and billows pictures sorrows flooding in relentlessly. Yet even these 'your waves' are acknowledged as under God's hand. Faith confesses that even overwhelming troubles come within God's sovereign ordering.
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Cross-references · 9
- Jonah 2:3For 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.
- Ps 69:14–15Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
- Ps 88:7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
- Lam 3:53–55They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.
- Job 1:14–19a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
- Ps 88:15–17From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
- Jer 4:20Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.
- Ezek 7:26Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
- Job 10:17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
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