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As the Deer Pants for the Water

Psalms 42:7

In 11 translations

BSB
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
KJV
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
WEB
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
ASV
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
LSV
Deep is calling to deep || At the noise of Your waterspouts, || All Your breakers and Your billows passed over me.
YLT
Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.
DBY
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
DRC41:8
Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.
GNV
One deepe calleth another deepe by the noyse of thy water spoutes: all thy waues and thy floods are gone ouer me.
JPS42:8
Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of Thy cataracts; all Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me.
LXXE41:8
Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves have gone over me.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC42:8
תְּהֽוֹם־אֶל־תְּה֣וֹם ק֭וֹרֵא לְק֣וֹל צִנּוֹרֶ֑יךָ כָּֽל־מִשְׁבָּרֶ֥יךָ וְ֝גַלֶּ֗יךָ עָלַ֥י עָבָֽרוּ׃KJV:Ps.42.7
LXX-Br41:8
Ἄβυσσος ἄβυσσον ἐπικαλεῖται εἰς φωνὴν τῶν καταῤῥακτῶν σου· πάντες οἱ μετεωρισμοί σου, καὶ τὰ κύματά σου ἐπʼ ἐμὲ διῆλθον.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • Psalms 69:14–15Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters. Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
  • Psalms 88:7Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah
  • Lamentations 3:53–55They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me. The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die. I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
  • Ezekiel 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 1:14–19a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, the Sabeans swooped down and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell…
  • Jeremiah 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.
  • Psalms 88:15–17From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me. All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every…
  • Job 10:17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 42:8 in some Bibles
  • 42:7 in most Bibles

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