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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Psalm 42
42
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.
1As the hart panteth after the water brooks,
So panteth my soul after thee, O God.
2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God:
When shall I come and appear before God?
3My tears have been my meat day and night,
While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me:
For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept holyday.
5Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
And why art thou disquieted in me?
Hope thou 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 will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts:
All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
9I will say unto God my rock, why hast thou forgotten me?
Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
10 As with a sword in my bones,
Mine enemies reproach me;
While they say daily unto me,
Where is thy God?
11Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
And why art thou disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God;
For I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
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