Psalms42
Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.
For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
1As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God.2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?3My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”4These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. 5Why are you in despair, O my soul?And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.6O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.7Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.8The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life. 9I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”10As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”11Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
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