The Psalms (WEB)

Psalm 42

For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.

 ^42:1As the deer pants for the water brooks,
      So pants my soul after you, God.

 ^42:2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
      When shall I come and appear before God?

 ^42:3My tears have been my food day and night,
      While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

 ^42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
      How I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God,
      With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

 ^42:5Why 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.

 ^42:6My 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.

 ^42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
      All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

  ^42:8Yahweh will command his lovingkindness in the daytime.
      In the night his song shall be with me:
      A prayer to the God of my life.

 ^42:9I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?
      Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

 ^42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,
      While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

 ^42:11Why 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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