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Psalms 42
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah (note: In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm. Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142.). As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence (note: Or and see the face of God?)?
My tears have been my food day and night,
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
My God, my soul is in despair within me.
O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me?
I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,
Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.