Psalm 42 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.

Psa 42:1To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God.

Psa 42:2

Psa 42:2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?

Psa 42:3

Psa 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me continually, "Where is your God?"

Psa 42:4

Psa 42:4These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Psa 42:5

Psa 42:5Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help

Psa 42:6

Psa 42:6and my God. My soul is cast down within me, therefore I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Psa 42:7

Psa 42:7Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.

Psa 42:8

Psa 42:8By day the LORD commands his steadfast love; and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Psa 42:9

Psa 42:9I say to God, my rock: "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

Psa 42:10

Psa 42:10As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, "Where is your God?"

Psa 42:11

Psa 42:11Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.

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Psalm 42 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.

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