Psalms 42
Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.
For the music director. A ▼▼Possibly Contemplative; or Didactic; or Skillful PsalmMaskil 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, God. 2 My soul ethirsts for God, for the fliving God;
When shall I come and ▼
▼Some mss see the face of God
happear before God? 3 My itears have been my food day and night,
While they jsay to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
4 I remember these things and kpour out my soul within me.
For I lused to go over with the multitude and walk them to the house of God,
With a voice of mjoy and thanksgiving, a multitude celebrating a festival.
5 nWhy are you ▼
▼Lit dissolved away
pin despair, my soul? And why are you qrestless within me?
rWait for God, for I will ▼
▼Or still
again praise ▼▼Some ancient versions Him, the help of my face and my God
Him For the ▼
▼Or saving acts of
vhelp of His ▼▼Or presence. O my God, my soul...
presence, my God. 6 My soul is ▼
▼Or dissolved away
in despair within me; Therefore I yremember You from zthe land of the Jordan
And the ▼
▼Lit Hermons
peaks of abHermon, from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your acbreakers and Your waves have passed over me.
8 The Lord will adsend His goodness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me aein the night,
A prayer to afthe God of my life.
9 I will say to God agmy rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go about ahmourning ▼
▼Or while the enemy oppresses
because of the ajoppression of the enemy?” 10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me,
While they aksay to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11 alWhy are you ▼
▼Or dissolved away
in despair, my soul? And why are you restless within me?
Wait for God, for I will again praise ▼
▼As in some ancient mss, cf. v 5; MT Him, the help of my face and my God
Him For the ▼
▼Or saving acts of
help of His presence, my God.
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