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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Psalm 42
42
Book Two
Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
To the choirmaster. A Maskil#42:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term of #1 Chr. 6:33, 37the Sons of Korah.
1 # [Joel 1:20] As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
2 #
Ps. 63:1; John 7:37; [Isa. 41:17; 55:1]; See Ps. 84:2 My soul thirsts for God,
for #Ps. 84:2; Josh. 3:10; Dan. 6:26 the living God.
When shall I come and #Ps. 84:7; [Ex. 23:17]appear before God?#42:2 Revocalization yields and see the face of God
3 #
Ps. 80:5; 102:9 My tears have been my food
day and night,
# ver. 10; Ps. 79:10; 115:2; Joel 2:17; Mic. 7:10 while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
4These things I remember,
as I #Ps. 62:8; 1 Sam. 1:15; Job 30:16; Lam. 2:19 pour out my soul:
# [Isa. 30:29] how I would go #Ps. 55:14 with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
# [2 Sam. 6:15] a multitude keeping festival.
5 # ver. 11; Ps. 43:5; [Matt. 26:38; John 12:27] Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you #Ps. 77:3 in turmoil within me?
#
Lam. 3:24
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation#42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5 6and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I #Jonah 2:7 remember you
#
2 Sam. 17:22, 24 from the land of Jordan and of #Deut. 3:9Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
7Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
#
Jonah 2:3 all your breakers and your #Ps. 88:7; See Ps. 32:6waves
have gone over me.
8By day the Lord #Ps. 44:4; 68:28; 71:3; 133:3 commands his steadfast love,
and at #Job 35:10; [Ps. 4:4; 16:7; 63:6; 77:6; 119:55, 62, 148; 149:5]night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
9I say to God, #See Ps. 18:2; 2 Sam. 22:2 my rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
#
Ps. 38:6; 43:2 Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
# See ver. 3 while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
11 # See ver. 5 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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