Psa 42:2-4, 43:3, 63:1-2, 84:1-2, 137:3-6, Lam 1:4, 7, 2:6-7, Hos 9:5 | ESV | STEP | My soul thirsts for God , for the living God . When shall I come and appear before God ?

Psalms 42:2-4

2 ^aMy soul thirsts for God,
for ^bthe living God.
When shall I come and ^cappear before God? ^{▼▼Revocalization yields and see the face of God}
3 ^eMy tears have been my food
day and night,
^fwhile they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember,
as I ^gpour out my soul:
^hhow I would go ⁱwith the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
^ja multitude keeping festival.

Psalms 43:3

3 ^kSend out your light and your truth;
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your ^lholy hill
and to your ^mdwelling!

Psalms 63:1-2

My Soul Thirsts for You

A Psalm of David, ⁿwhen he was in the wilderness of Judah.

1 O God, you are my God; ^oearnestly I seek you;
^pmy soul thirsts for you;
my flesh faints for you,
as in ^qa dry and weary land where there is no water.
2 So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,
beholding ^ryour power and glory.

Psalms 84:1-2

My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord

To the choirmaster: according to ^sThe Gittith. ^{▼▼Probably a musical or liturgical term} A Psalm of ^uthe Sons of Korah.

1 How ^vlovely is your ^wdwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!
2 My soul ^xlongs, yes, ^yfaints
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to ^zthe living God.

Psalms 137:3-6

3 For there our captors
required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 ^aaHow shall we sing the Lord’s song
in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
^ablet my right hand forget its skill!
6 Let my ^actongue stick to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
above my highest joy!

Lamentations 1:4

4 The roads to Zion mourn,
for none come to ^adthe festival;
^aeall her gates are desolate;
her priests ^afgroan;
her virgins have been afflicted, ^{▼▼Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away}
and she herself suffers bitterly.

Lamentations 1:7

7 Jerusalem remembers
in the days of her affliction and wandering
^ahall the precious things
that were hers from ^aidays of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the foe,
and there was none to help her,
her foes gloated over her;
they ^ajmocked at her downfall.

Lamentations 2:6-7

6 He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
laid in ruins ^akhis meeting place;
^althe Lord has made Zion forget
festival and ^amSabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
7 ^anThe Lord has scorned his altar,
^aodisowned his sanctuary;
^aphe has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
^aqthey raised a clamor in the house of the Lord
as on the day of festival.

Hosea 9:5

5 ^arWhat will you do on the day of the appointed festival,
and on the day of the feast of the Lord?