Psalms 42
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- 1As the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after 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 continually say to me, 'Where is your God?'
- 4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me, for I had gone with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept the holy day.
- 5Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you troubled within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him for the help of his presence.
- 6O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
- 7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and your billows have swept over me.
- 8Yet the LORD will direct his steadfast love in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my 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 with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me, while they say daily to me, 'Where is your God?'
- 11Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you troubled within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the source of my well-being, and my God.