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Psalm 42:7

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42:7One deep stream calls out to another19 at the sound of your waterfalls;20

all your billows and waves overwhelm me.21

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Footnotes

  1. 19 Heb “deep calls to deep.” The Hebrew noun תְּהוֹם (téhom) often refers to the deep sea, but here, where it is associated with Hermon, it probably refers to mountain streams. The word can be used of streams and rivers (see Deut 8:7; Ezek 31:4).
  2. 20 The noun צִנּוֹר (tsinnor, “waterfall”) occurs only here and in 2 Sam 5:8, where it apparently refers to a water shaft. The psalmist alludes to the loud rushing sound of mountain streams and cascading waterfalls. Using the poetic device of personification, he imagines the streams calling out to each other as they hear the sound of the waterfalls.
  3. 21 Heb “pass over me” (see Jonah 2:3). As he hears the sound of the rushing water, the psalmist imagines himself engulfed in the current. By implication he likens his emotional distress to such an experience.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Deep calls to deep

at the roar of your waterfalls;

all your breakers and your waves

have gone over me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Deep calls to deep

in the roar of your waterfalls;

all your waves and breakers

have swept over me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;

all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.

NLTNew Living Translation

I hear the tumult of the raging seas

as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Deep is calling to deep

at the thunder of your waterfalls.

All your breakers and your waves

have passed over me.

KJV 1900King James Version

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:

All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.