the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Psalms 42:7
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Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
Your vicious waves have swept over me like an angry ocean or a roaring waterfall.
My God, when I feel so downcast, I remind myself of you from the land of Yarden, from the peaks of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.
I hear the roar of the water coming from deep within the earth. It shouts to the water below as it tumbles down the waterfall. God, your waves come one after another, crashing all around and over me.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.
One deepe calleth another at the noyse of thy water pypes: all thy waues and stormes are gone ouer me.
One deepe calleth another deepe by the noyse of thy water spoutes: all thy waues and thy floods are gone ouer me.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of thy waterfalls: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.
Deepe calleth vnto deepe at the noyse of thy water-spouts: all thy waues, and thy billowes are gone ouer me.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
Deep calleth to deep at the noise of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Deep is calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.
Deep calls to deep through the voice of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and Your billows have passed over me.
Troubles have come again and again, sounding like waterfalls. Your waves are crashing all around me.
One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls; All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
Depthe clepith depthe; in the vois of thi wyndows. Alle thin hiye thingis and thi wawis; passiden ouer me.
Sea calls to sea at the sound of Your waterfalls. All Your waves have rolled over me.
Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your cataracts; all your waves and your billows have gone over me.
Roaring deep unto roaring deep, is calling, at the voice of thy cataracts, All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, have passed.
(41-8) Deep calleth on deep, at the noise of thy flood-gates. All thy heights and thy billows have passed over me.
Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.
The LORDE hath promised his louynge kyndnesse daylie, therfore wil I prayse him in the night season, and make my prayer vnto ye God of my life.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Deep calls to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy billows and thy waves have gone over me.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls: All your waves and your billows have gone over me.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Deep calleth: Job 1:14-19, Job 10:17, Jeremiah 4:20, Ezekiel 7:26
waterspouts: 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: Psalms 69:14, Psalms 69:15, Psalms 88:7, Psalms 88:15-17, Lamentations 3:53-55, Jonah 2:3
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 30:6 - was greatly Job 9:17 - For he Job 16:14 - runneth Job 22:11 - abundance Job 27:20 - Terrors Psalms 25:17 - General Psalms 32:6 - in the floods Psalms 88:17 - They Psalms 124:4 - the waters Psalms 130:1 - Out of Ecclesiastes 12:2 - nor Song of Solomon 3:2 - I sought Jeremiah 12:5 - swelling Jeremiah 45:3 - added Jeremiah 51:42 - General
Cross-References
And he remembered the dreams he'd had about them many years before. He said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see how vulnerable our land has become."
"Yes, you are!" Joseph insisted. "You have come to see how vulnerable our land has become."
But Joseph insisted, "As I said, you are spies!
So Joseph put them all in prison for three days.
If you really are honest men, choose one of your brothers to remain in prison. The rest of you may go home with grain for your starving families.
But you must bring your youngest brother back to me. This will prove that you are telling the truth, and you will not die." To this they agreed.
Of course, they didn't know that Joseph understood them, for he had been speaking to them through an interpreter.
So the brothers loaded their donkeys with the grain and headed for home.
"The man who is governor of the land spoke very harshly to us," they told him. "He accused us of being spies scouting the land.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of the water spouts,.... By which are meant afflictions, comparable to the deep waters of the sea, for their multitude and overwhelming nature; see Psalms 69:1; these came pouring down, one after another, upon the psalmist: as soon as one affliction over, another came, as in the case of Job; which is signified by one calling to another, and were clamorous, troublesome, and very grievous and distressing;
all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me: with which he seemed to be covered and overwhelmed, as a ship is at sea. It may be observed, that the psalmist calls afflictions God's water spouts, and "his" waves and "his" billows; because they are appointed, sent, ordered, and overruled by him, and made to work for the good of his people: and now, though these might seem to be a just cause of dejection, yet they were not, as appears from Psalms 42:8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Deep calleth unto deep - The language used here would seem to imply that the psalmist was near some floods of water, some rapid river or water-fall, which constituted an appropriate illustration of the waves of sorrow that were rolling over his soul. It is not possible to determine exactly where this was, though, as suggested in the verse above, it would seem most probable that it was in the vicinity of the upper portion of the Jordan; and doubtless the Jordan, if swollen, would suggest all that is conveyed by the language used here. The word rendered deep - תהום tehôm - means properly a wave, billow, surge, and then, a mass of waters; a flood - the deep; the sea. In this latter sense it is used in Deuteronomy 8:7; Ezekiel 31:4; Genesis 7:11; Job 28:14; Job 38:16, Job 38:30; Psalms 36:6. Here it would seem to mean merely a wave or billow, perhaps the waves of a rapid stream dashing on one shore, and then driven to the opposite bank, or the torrents pouring over rocks in the bed of a stream. It is not necessary to suppose that this was the ocean, nor that there was a cataract or water-fall. All that is meant here would be met by the roaring waters of a swollen river. The word “calleth,” here means that one wave seemed to speak to another, or one wave responded to another. See a similar expression in Psalms 19:2, “Day unto day uttereth speech.” Compare the notes at that verse.
At the noise of thy water-spouts - literally, “at the voice.” That is, “water-spouts” make a noise, or seem to give forth a voice; and this appears to be as if one part of the “deep” were speaking to another, or as if one wave were calling with a loud voice to another. The word “water-spouts” - צנור tsinnor - occurs only here and in 2 Samuel 5:8, where it is rendered gutter. It properly means a cataract, or a water-fall, or a water-course, as in 2 Samuel. Any pouring of water - as from the clouds, or in a swollen river, or in a “water spout,” properly so called - would correspond with the use of the word here. It may have been rain pouring down; or it may have been the Jordan pouring its floods over rocks, for it is well known that the descent of the Jordan in that part is rapid, and especially when swollen; or it may have been the phenomena of a “water-spout,” for these are not uncommon in the East. There are two forms in which “waterspouts” occur, or to which the name is given in the east, and the language here would be applicable to either of them.
One of them is described in the following manner by Dr. Thomson, Land and the Book, vol. i., pp. 498, 499: “A small black cloud traverses the sky in the latter part of summer or the beginning of autumn, and pours down a flood of rain that sweeps all before it. The Arabs call it sale; we, a waterspout, or the bursting of a cloud. In the neighborhood of Hermon I have witnessed it repeatedly, and was caught in one last year, which in five minutes flooded the whole mountain side, washed away the fallen olives - the food of the poor - overthrew stone walls, tore up by the roots large trees, and carried off whatever the tumultuous torrents encountered, as they leaped madly down from terrace to terrace in noisy cascades. Every summer threshing-floor along the line of its march was swept bare of all precious food, cattle were drowned, flocks disappeared, and the mills along the streams were ruined in half an hour by this sudden deluge.”
The other is described in the following language, and the above engraving will furnish an illustration of it. Land and the Book, vol, ii., pp. 256, 257: “Look at those clouds which hang like a heavy pall of sackcloth over the sea along the western horizon. From them, on such windy days as these, are formed waterspouts, and I have already noticed several incipient “spouts” drawn down from the clouds toward the sea, and ... seen to be in violent agitation, whirling round on themselves as they are driven along by the wind. Directly beneath them the surface of the sea is also in commotion by a whirlwind, which travels onward in concert with the spout above. I have often seen the two actually unite in mid air, and rush toward the mountains, writhing, and twisting, and bending like a huge serpent with its head in the clouds, and its tail on the deep.” We cannot now determine to which of these the psalmist refers, but either of them would furnish a striking illustration of the passage before us.
All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me - The waves of sorrow; anguish of soul; of which rolling floods would be an emblem. The rushing, and heaving, and restless waters furnished the psalmist with an illustration of the deep sorrows of his soul. So we speak of “floods of grief ... floods of tears,” “oceans of sorrows,” as if waves and billows swept over us. And so we speak of being “drowned in grief;” or “in tears.” Compare Psalms 124:4-5.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 42:7. Deep 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 Homer'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.
