BOOK 2 PSALM 42 Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile. For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. 42
1As the deer [K]pants for the water brooks,
So my soul [L]pants for You, O God.
2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and [M]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 [N]lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
5Why are you [O]in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
[P]Hope in God, for I shall [Q]again praise [R]Him
For the [S]help of His presence.
6O my God, my soul is [T]in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the [U]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 [V]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 [W]in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
[X]Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The [Y]help of my countenance and my God.
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