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Psalm 42 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Book Two: Psalms 42—72
PSALM 42
Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses
To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[fn] of the sons of Korah.
1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
​​So pants my soul for You, O God.
2 ​​My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
​​When shall I come and appear before God?[fn]
3 ​​My tears have been my food day and night,
​​While they continually say to me,
​​“Where is your God?”
​
4 ​​When I remember these things,
​​I pour out my soul within me.
​​For I used to go with the multitude;
​​I went with them to the house of God,
​​With the voice of joy and praise,
​​With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
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5 ​​Why are you cast down, O my soul?
​​And why are you disquieted within me?
​​Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
​​For the help of His countenance.[fn]
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6 ​​O my God,[fn] my soul is cast down within me;
​​Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
​​And from the heights of Hermon,
​​From the Hill Mizar.
7 ​​Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
​​All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
8 ​​The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
​​And in the night His song shall be with me—
​​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 mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 ​​As with a breaking of my bones,
​​My enemies reproach me,
​​While they say to me all day long,
​​“Where is your God?”
​
11 ​​Why are you cast down, O my soul?
​​And why are you disquieted within me?
​​Hope in God;
​​For I shall yet praise Him,
​​The help of my countenance and my God.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Hebrew Maschil
Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, and Targum read I see the face of God.
Following Masoretic Text and Targum; a few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read The help of my countenance, my God.
Following Masoretic Text and Targum; a few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate put my God at the end of verse 5.
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