Psalms 42
42
Book II
(Psalms 42—72)
Psalm 42
Longing for God and His Help in Distress
To the leader. A Maskil of the Korahites.
1 #
Ps 119.131
As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
2 #
Ps 43.4; 63.1; Jer 10.10 My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and behold
the face of God?
3 #
Ps 79.10; 80.5 My tears have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me continually,
“Where is your God?”
4 #
Ps 62.8; 100.4; Isa 30.29 These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng#42.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,
a multitude keeping festival.
5 #
Ps 38.6; 44.3; 77.3; Lam 3.24 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
my help 6and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
7 #
Ps 88.7; Jon 2.3 Deep calls to deep
at the thunder of your torrents;
all your waves and your billows
have gone over me.
8 #
Job 35.10; Ps 57.3; 63.6; 149.5 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
9 #
Ps 38.6
I say to God, my rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because the enemy oppresses me?”
10 #
v 3
As with a deadly wound in my body,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually,
“Where is your God?”
11 #
v 5
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
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