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            <div class="label">42</div><div class="ms"><span class="heading">Book Two</span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?</span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">To the choirmaster. A Maskil</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">42:1 </span><span class="ft">Probably a musical or liturgical term</span></span></span><span class="content"> of </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">1 Chr. 6:33, 37</span></span><span class="content">the Sons of Korah.</span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    [Joel 1:20]  </span></span><span class="content">As a deer pants for flowing streams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">so pants my soul for you, O God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.42.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    
        Ps. 63:1; John 7:37; [Isa. 41:17; 55:1]; See Ps. 84:2   </span></span><span class="content">My soul thirsts for God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">for </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 84:2; Josh. 3:10; Dan. 6:26 </span></span><span class="content">the living God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">When shall I come and </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 84:7; [Ex. 23:17]</span></span><span class="content">appear before God?</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">42:2 </span><span class="ft">Revocalization yields </span><span class="fq">and see the face of God</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.42.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    
        Ps. 80:5; 102:9   </span></span><span class="content">My tears have been my food</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    ver. 10; Ps. 79:10; 115:2; Joel 2:17; Mic. 7:10  </span></span><span class="content">while they say to me all the day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.42.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">These things I remember,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">as I </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 62:8; 1 Sam. 1:15; Job 30:16; Lam. 2:19 </span></span><span class="content">pour out my soul:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    [Isa. 30:29]   </span></span><span class="content">how I would go </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 55:14 </span></span><span class="content">with the throng</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">and lead them in procession to the house of God</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">with glad shouts and songs of praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    [2 Sam. 6:15]  </span></span><span class="content">a multitude keeping festival.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.42.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    ver. 11; Ps. 43:5; [Matt. 26:38; John 12:27]   </span></span><span class="content">Why are you cast down, O my soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">and why are you </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 77:3 </span></span><span class="content">in turmoil within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    
        Lam. 3:24
        </span></span><span class="content">Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.42.5"><span class="content">my salvation</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">42:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fq">the salvation of my face</span><span class="ft">; also verse 11 and 43:5</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and my God.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">My soul is cast down within me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">therefore I </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Jonah 2:7 </span></span><span class="content">remember you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    
        2 Sam. 17:22, 24   </span></span><span class="content">from the land of Jordan and of </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Deut. 3:9</span></span><span class="content">Hermon,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">from Mount Mizar.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.42.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Deep calls to deep</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">at the roar of your waterfalls;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    
        Jonah 2:3   </span></span><span class="content">all your breakers and your </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 88:7; See Ps. 32:6</span></span><span class="content">waves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">have gone over me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.42.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">By day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 44:4; 68:28; 71:3; 133:3 </span></span><span class="content">commands his steadfast love,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">and at </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 35:10; [Ps. 4:4; 16:7; 63:6; 77:6; 119:55, 62, 148; 149:5]</span></span><span class="content">night his song is with me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">a prayer to the God of my life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.42.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I say to God, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">See Ps. 18:2; 2 Sam. 22:2 </span></span><span class="content">my rock:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Why have you forgotten me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    
        Ps. 38:6; 43:2  </span></span><span class="content">Why do I go mourning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">because of the oppression of the enemy?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.42.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">As with a deadly wound in my bones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">my adversaries taunt me,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    See ver. 3  </span></span><span class="content">while they say to me all the day long,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.42.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">    See ver. 5  </span></span><span class="content">Why are you cast down, O my soul,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">and why are you in turmoil within me?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.42.11"><span class="content">my salvation and my God.</span></span></div>
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As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food
day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.

Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
have gone over me.
By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, my rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”

Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

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