d Ps 119:131
e Ps 63:1; 84:2; 143:6
f Josh 3:10; Ps 84:2; Jer 10:10; Dan 6:26; Matt 26:63; Rom 9:26; 1 Thess 1:9
h Ex 23:17; Ps 43:4; 84:7
i Ps 80:5; 102:9
j Ps 79:10; 115:2; Joel 2:17; Mic 7:10
k 1 Sam 1:15; Job 30:16; Ps 62:8; Lam 2:19
l Ps 55:14; 122:1; Is 30:29
n Ps 100:4
o Ps 42:11; 43:5
q Ps 38:6; Matt 26:38
r Ps 77:3
t Ps 71:14; Lam 3:24
x Ps 44:3
z Ps 61:2
aa 2 Sam 17:22
ac Deut 3:8
ad Ps 69:1, 2; 88:7; Jon 2:3
ae Ps 57:3; 133:3
af Job 35:10; Ps 16:7; 63:6; 77:6; 149:5
ag Eccl 5:18; 8:15
ah Ps 18:2
ai Ps 38:6
ak Ps 17:9
al Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17
am Ps 42:5; 43:5

Psalms 42

BOOK 2

Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.

For the choir director. A ▼
▼ Possibly Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful Psalm
Maskil of the sons of Korah.

1 As the deer ▼
▼ Lit longs for
pants for the water brooks,
So my soul ▼
▼ Lit longs for
 , dpants for You, O God.
 2My soul ethirsts for God, for the fliving God;
When shall I come and ▼
▼ Some mss read see the face of God
 , happear before God?
 3My itears have been my food day and night,
While they jsay to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
 4These things I remember and I kpour out my soul within me.
For I lused to go along with the throng and ▼
▼ Or move slowly with them
lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the voice of njoy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

 5 oWhy are you ▼
▼ Or sunk down
 , qin despair, O my soul?
And why have you become rdisturbed within me?
▼
▼ Or Wait for
 , tHope in God, for I shall ▼
▼ Or still
again praise ▼
▼ Some ancient versions read Him, the help of my countenance and my God
Him
For the ▼
▼ Or saving acts of
 , xhelp of His presence.
 6O my God, my soul is ▼
▼ Or sunk down
in despair within me;
Therefore I zremember You from aathe land of the Jordan
And the ▼
▼ Lit Hermons
peaks of acHermon, from Mount Mizar.
 7Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your adbreakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
 8The Lord will aecommand His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me afin the night,
A prayer to agthe God of my life.

 9I will say to God ahmy rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go aimourning ▼
▼ Or while the enemy oppresses
because of the akoppression of the enemy?”
 10As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they alsay to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
 11 amWhy are you ▼
▼ Or sunk down
in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
▼
▼ Or Wait for
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The ▼
▼ Or saving acts of
help of my countenance and my God.
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