Psalm Chapter 42 Back NextPsalm 42 For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of
Korah.
{42:1} As the deer pants for the water
brooks, so my soul pants after you,
God.
{42:2} My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
{42:3} My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
{42:4} These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God's house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
{42:5} Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
{42:6} My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the
Jordan, the heights of
Hermon, from the
hill Mizar.
{42:7} Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
{42:8}
Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
{42:9} I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
{42:10} As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
{42:11} Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
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