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Psalm 42 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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BOOK 2

PSALM 42

Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.

For the music director. A [fn]Maskil of the sons of Korah.

1 As the deer [fn]pants for the water brooks,

So my soul [fn]pants for You, God.

2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;

When shall I come and [fn]appear before God?

3 My tears have been my food day and night,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

4 I remember these things and pour out my soul within me.

For I used to go over with the multitude and walk them to the house of God,

With a voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude celebrating a festival.

5 Why are you [fn]in despair, my soul?

And why are you restless within me?

Wait for God, for I will [fn]again praise [fn]Him

For the [fn]help of His [fn]presence, my God.

6 My soul is [fn]in despair within me;

Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan

And the [fn]peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;

All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.

8 The LORD will send His goodness in the daytime;

And His song will be with me in the night,

A prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?

Why do I go about mourning [fn]because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

11 Why are you [fn]in despair, my soul?

And why are you restless within me?

Wait for God, for I will again praise [fn]Him

For the [fn]help of His presence, my God.

See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
Possibly Contemplative; or Didactic; or Skillful Psalm
Lit longs for
Lit longs for
Some mss see the face of God
Lit dissolved away
Or still
Some ancient versions Him, the help of my face and my God
Or saving acts of
Or presence. O my God, my soul...
Or dissolved away
Lit Hermons
Or while the enemy oppresses
Or dissolved away
As in some ancient mss, cf. v 5; MT Him, the help of my face and my God
Or saving acts of
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