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Psalms Ps. 42–43. While each of these psalms can be taken separately, Psalms 42–43 go well together as a song with three stanzas: they share a refrain (42:5; 11; 43:5); 43:2 is almost the same as 42:9; and they both express the longing to return to God’s presence in the sanctuary (42:2; 43:3–4). The singer laments his circumstances, which keep him from attending worship and enjoying God’s presence at the central sanctuary.
Ps. 42:1–5 The song begins with an expression of longing for God himself, using the image of thirst: As a deer pants for flowing streams. For the faithful, the answer to this longing comes in public worship (appear before God at the sanctuary; see Ex. 23:17).
Ps. 42:6–11 The second stanza sharpens the description of the singer’s situation. He is in the land of Jordan and of Hermon, far from the sanctuary in Jerusalem. He knows that God is not literally absent (v. 6), but he also feels that the sanctuary is where he meets God most fully. This stanza ends, like the first, with self-encouragement.
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