<< Psalm 42 >>
New American Standard ©


BOOK 2

Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.

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

1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
         So my soul pants for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
         When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
         While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
4 These 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.
5 Why 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.
6 O 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.
7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
         All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
8 The 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.
9 I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
         Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
         While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11 Why 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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