Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone 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.
- 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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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.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 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.
- Ps 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.
- Ps 88:7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
- Lam 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:
- Ps 88:15–17I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
- Jer 4:20Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
- Ezek 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.
- Job 10:17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
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