King James Version
Psalms 42:7 in the King James Version says “Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 42 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.”
Psalms 42:7 · KJV
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. cast: Heb. bowed praise: or, give thanks for the: or, his presence is salvation
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. the hill: or, the little hill
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Deep”
H8415an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
“Deep”
H8415an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean watersupply)
“calleth”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and thy billows”
H1530something rolled, i.e., a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“are gone”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
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