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Psalms 42:7

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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 69:14-15, Psalms 88:7, Psalms 88:15-17; Lamentations 3:53-55; Jonah 2:3

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