Psalm 42
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1For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.1For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As 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 can I go and meet with 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 people say to me all day long, "Where is your 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 as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.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, 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.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.
6My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar.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 in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.7Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
8By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life.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 say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"9I will say to God my rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
10My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"10As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, While they say 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.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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