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Psalm 42 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

My Soul Thirsts for God

Psa 42:1

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

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

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

Psa 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;

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

Psa 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night,

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

Psa 42:4

These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.

For I used to go along with the throng and [fn]lead them in procession to the house of God,

With the sound of a shout of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Psa 42:5

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

And why are you disturbed within me?

Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,

[fn]For the [fn]salvation of His presence.

Psa 42:6

O my God, 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.

Psa 42:7

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;

All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

Psa 42:8

By day, Yahweh will command His lovingkindness;

And by night, His song will be with me,

A prayer to the God of my life.

Psa 42:9

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

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

Psa 42:10

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries reproach me,

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

Psa 42:11

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

And why are you disturbed within me?

Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,

The salvation of my presence and my God.

LSB Footnotes
Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm
Lit longs
Lit longs
Some mss see the face of God
Or move slowly with them
Or sunk down
Some ancient versions The help of my countenance and my God
Or saving acts
Or sunk down
Lit Hermons
Or while the enemy oppresses
Or sunk down
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