Psalm 42 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.

Psa 42:1For 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

Psa 42:2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and [fn]appear before God?

Psa 42:3

Psa 42:3My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psa 42:4

Psa 42:4These 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 voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Psa 42:5

Psa 42:5Why are you [fn]in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
[fn]Hope in God, for I shall [fn]again praise [fn]Him
For the [fn]help of His presence.

Psa 42:6

Psa 42:6O 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

Psa 42:7Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

Psa 42:8

Psa 42:8The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.

Psa 42:9

Psa 42:9I will 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

Psa 42:10As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psa 42:11

Psa 42:11Why are you [fn]in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
[fn]Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The [fn]help of my countenance and my God.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(42:1)

Possibly Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful Psalm

(42:1)

Literally: longs for

(42:2)

Some mss read see the face of God

(42:4)

Or, move slowly with them

Or, sunk down

Or, Wait for

Or, still

Some ancient versions read Him, the help of my countenance and my God

Or, saving acts of

Or, sunk down

Literally: Hermons

Or, while the enemy oppresses

(42:11)

Or, sunk down

(42:11)

Or, Wait for

(42:11)

Or, saving acts of

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