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Psalm 42 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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Longing for God

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

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As a deer longs for flowing streams,

so I long for you, God.

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I thirst for God, the living God.

When can I come and appear before God?

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My tears have been my food day and night,

while all day long people say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

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I remember this as I pour out my heart:

how I walked with many,

leading the festive procession to the house of God,

with joyful and thankful shouts.

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Why, my soul, are you so dejected?

Why are you in such turmoil?

Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,

my Savior and my God.

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I[fn] am deeply depressed;

therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan

and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

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Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;

all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.

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The LORD will send his faithful love by day;

his song will be with me in the night —

a prayer to the God of my life.

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I will say to God, my rock,

“Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I go about in sorrow

because of the enemy’s oppression? ”

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My adversaries taunt me,

as if crushing my bones,

while all day long they say to me,

“Where is your God? ”

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Why, my soul, are you so dejected?

Why are you in such turmoil?

Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,

my Savior and my God.

See the CSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
CSB Footnotes
Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read him, the salvation of his presence. [6]My God, I
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Psalm Chapter 42 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras