Psalms 42
42
Wishing to Be Near God
For the director of music. A maskil of the sons of Korah.
1A deer thirsts for a stream of water.
In the same way, I thirst for you, God.
2I thirst for the living God.
When can I go to meet with him?
3Day and night, my tears have been my food.
People are always saying,
“Where is your God?”
4When I remember these things,
I speak with a broken heart.
I used to walk with the crowd.
I led the happy crowd to God’s Temple,
with songs of praise.
5Why am I so sad?
Why am I so upset?
I should put my hope in God.
I should keep praising him,
My Savior and 6my God.
I am very sad.
So I remember you while I am in the land where the Jordan River begins.
I will remember you while I am near the Hermon mountains
and on the mountain of Mizar.
7Troubles have come again and again.
They sound like waterfalls.
Your waves are crashing
all around me.
8The Lord shows his true love every day.
At night I have a song,
and I pray to my living God.
9I say to God, my Rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why am I sad
and troubled by my enemies?”
10My enemies’ insults make me feel
as if my bones were broken.
They are always saying,
“Where is your God?”
11Why am I so sad?
Why am I so upset?
I should put my hope in God.
I should keep praising him,
my Savior and my God.
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Psalms 42
42
BOOK II
Psalms 42–72
Psalm 42#In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.#In Hebrew texts 42:1-11 is numbered 42:2-12.
For the director of music. A maskil#Title: Probably a literary or musical term of the Sons of Korah.
1As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God.
2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When can I go and meet with God?
3My tears have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
4These things I remember
as I pour out my soul:
how I used to go to the house of God
under the protection of the Mighty One#42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
with shouts of joy and praise
among the festive throng.
5Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
6My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember you
from the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.
7Deep calls to deep
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.
8By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.
9I say to God my Rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy?”
10My bones suffer mortal agony
as my foes taunt me,
saying to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
11Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.
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