Psalms 42

BOOK 2

Psalm 42

Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

1As the deer pants for the water brooks,

So my soul pants for You, O God.

2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;

When shall I come and appear before God?

3My tears have been my food day and night,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

4These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.

For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,

With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

5Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him

For the help of His presence.

6O my God, my soul is in despair within me;

Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan

And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

7Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;

All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

8The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;

And His song will be with me in the night,

A prayer to the God of my life.

9I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?

Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

11Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,

The help of my countenance and my God.

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