Psalm 42:7
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Cross-reference
In Psalm 69:14, the same cry for deliverance from deep waters echoes the overwhelming experience of being submerged.
Psalm 69:15 continues the plea, asking not to be swallowed by the deep — reinforcing the same drowning metaphor.
Psalm 88:7 uses identical 'waves' imagery to describe being overwhelmed by God's wrath.
Psalm 88:15-17 expands on the flood of troubles, showing a sustained experience of being swept over.
Psalm 88:17 uses the same flood imagery: 'they surround me like a flood' — both depict being engulfed by troubles.
Psalm 32:6 promises that great waters will not reach the godly — contrasting with the psalmist's experience of being overwhelmed by waves.
Psalm 130:1 cries 'out of the depths' — the same 'deep' metaphor for distress, calling to God from despair.
Psalm 124:4 recalls when 'the flood would have swept us away' — similar water imagery but from a deliverance perspective.
Lamentations 3:53-55 describes water closing over the head in a pit — a literal fulfillment of the drowning metaphor.
Jonah 2:3 directly quotes the phrase 'all your waves and your billows passed over me,' making this a clear citation.
Job 22:11 mentions a flood of waters covering you — directly parallel to the waves overwhelming the psalmist.
In Job 27:20, terrors overtake like a flood — the same water imagery for overwhelming calamity as the psalmist's 'breakers and waves'.
In Jeremiah 51:42, the same imagery of overwhelming waves describes Babylon's judgment, echoing the psalmist's feeling of being engulfed.