Psalm 42:1WEB
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
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For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.
Psalm 42:1WEB
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
Psalm 42:2WEB
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Psalm 42:3WEB
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 42:4WEB
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.
Psalm 42:5WEB
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.
Psalm 42:6WEB
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.
Psalm 42:7WEB
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Psalm 42:8WEB
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.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 42:9WEB
I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Psalm 42:10WEB
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 42:11WEB
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.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.