Psalms 42
42
Book 2
(Psalms 42-72)
To the director: A maskil from the Korah family.
1Like a deer drinking from a stream,
I reach out to you, my God.#42:1 Or “As a deer stretches out to drink water from a stream, so my soul thirsts for you, God.”
2My soul thirsts for the living God.
When can I go to meet with him?
3Instead of food, I have only tears day and night,
as my enemies laugh at me and say, “Where is your God?”
4My heart breaks as I remember the pleasant times in the past,
when I walked with the crowds as I led them up to God’s Temple.
I remember the happy songs of praise
as they celebrated the festival.
5-6Why am I so sad?
Why am I so upset?
I tell myself, “Wait for God’s help!
You will again be able to praise him,
your God, the one who will save you.”
In my sadness I say, “I will remember you from here on this small hill,#42:5-6 small hill Or “Mount Mizar.”
where Mount Hermon and the Jordan River meet.”
7I hear the roar of the water coming from deep within the earth.
It shouts to the water below as it tumbles down the waterfall.
God, your waves come one after another,
crashing all around and over me.#42:7 God, your waves … over me These word pictures describe the psalmist’s feelings about the many troubles the Lord has allowed him to experience.
8By day the Lord shows his faithful love,
and at night I have a song for him—a prayer for the God of my life.#42:8 the God of my life Or “my living God.”
9I say to God, my Rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I suffer this sadness that my enemies have brought me?”
10Their constant insults are killing me.
They never stop asking, “Where is your God?”
11Why am I so sad?
Why am I so upset?
I tell myself, “Wait for God’s help!
You will again be able to praise him,
your God, the one who will save you.”
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Psalms 42
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BOOK TWO: Psalms 42—72
Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses
To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah.
1As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
2#Ps. 63:1; 84:2; 143:6; (Jer. 10:10)My soul thirsts for God, for the #Rom. 9:26; 1 Thess. 1:9living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
3#Ps. 80:5; 102:9My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
#Ps. 79:10; 115:2; Joel 2:17; Mic. 7:10“Where is your God?”
4When I remember these things,
#1 Sam. 1:15; Job 30:16I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
#Ps. 55:14; 122:1; Is. 30:29I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
5#Ps. 42:11; 43:5Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
#Ps. 71:14; Lam. 3:24Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance.
6O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From the Hill Mizar.
7Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
#Ps. 69:1, 2; 88:7; Jon. 2:3All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8The Lord will #Deut. 28:8command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And #Job 35:10; Ps. 149:5in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.
9I will say to God my Rock,
#Ps. 38:6“Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10As with a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
#Ps. 42:3; Joel 2:17; Mic. 7:10While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
11#Ps. 43:5Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.
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