Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageDeep calls to deep in the thunder of Your waterfalls; all Your waves and breakers have crashed over me.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GDeep calls to deep at the roar of Your cataracts; all Your breakers and Your waves have swept over me.
KJV
King James VersionDeep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleDeep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
Footnotes
*Təhôm* (תְּהוֹם), 'the Deep,' is the primordial chaos-water of Gen. 1:2 — the same abyss that hovered before creation. Its appearance here is not incidental: the psalmist describes his suffering in the language of uncreation, as if the ordered cosmos is collapsing back into chaos. For FOG Message, this is typologically loaded — the waters of chaos subdued by Elohim at creation now surge over the one who trusts Him, foreshadowing Yeshua/Jesus stilling the storm over those same waters (Mark 4:39) and resurrection as new creation emerging from the deep. *Ṣinnôr* (צִנּוֹר) denotes a waterfall, channel, or cataract — likely evoking the roaring falls of the Hermon region near the psalmist's location in v.6. *Mišbār* (מִשְׁבָּר) is specifically a 'breaker,' a wave that shatters on rocks — the language of mortal peril at sea. Both translations render the verse as an image of overwhelming, cosmic-scale affliction.