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Psalms 42:2
2My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God?
Psalms 42:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
- New International Version (NIV)My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
- English Standard Version (ESV)My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
- New King James Version (NKJV)My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Context of Psalms 42:2
1As the deer pants [longingly] for the water brooks, So my soul pants [longingly] for You, O God. My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God? 3My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” 4These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul; How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song], With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.
Read all of Psalms 42Psalms 42:2 word by word
צָמְאָ֬ה נַפְשִׁ֨י׀ לֵאלֹהִים֮ לְאֵ֪ל חָ֥י מָתַ֥י אָב֑וֹא וְ֝אֵרָאֶ֗ה פְּנֵ֣י אֱלֹהִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 42:2
- Psalms 36:8They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house; And You allow them to drink from the river of Your delights.
- Psalms 63:1O God, You are my God; with deepest longing I will seek You; My soul [my life, my very self] thirsts for You, my flesh longs and sighs for You, In a dry and weary land where there is no water.
- John 7:37Now on the last and most important day of the feast, Jesus stood and called out [in a loud voice], “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink!
- Revelation 22:1Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb (Christ),
- Job 23:3Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, That I might [even] come to His seat!
- Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have abandoned (rejected) Me, The fountain of living water, And they have carved out their own cisterns, Broken cisterns That cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 10:10But the Lord is the true God and the God who is Truth; He is the living God and the everlasting King. The earth quakes and shudders at His wrath, And the nations are not able to endure His indignation.
- John 5:26For just as the Father has life in Himself [and is self-existent], even so He has given to the Son to have life in Himself [and be self-existent].
- 1 Thessalonians 1:9For they themselves report about us, telling what kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,
- Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of the Lord, and that I will seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life, To gaze upon the beauty [the delightful loveliness and majestic grandeur] of the Lord And to meditate in His temple.
- Psalms 84:4Blessed and greatly favored are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence; They will be singing Your praises all the day long. Selah.
Commentaries on Psalms 42:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2When shall I come - When, when shall I have the privilege of appearing in his courts before God? In the mouth of a Christian these words would import: "When shall I see my heavenly country? When shall I come to God, the Judge of all, and to Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant?" He who is a stranger and a pilgrim here below, and feels a heart full of piety to God, may use these words in this sense; but he who feels himself here at home, whose soul is…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2My soul thirsteth for God - That is, as the hind thirsts for the running stream. For the living God - God, not merely as God, without anything more definitely specified, but God considered as living, as himself possessing life, and as having the power of imparting that life to the soul. When shall I come and appear before God? - That is, as I have been accustomed to do in the sanctuary. When shall I be restored to the privilege of again uniting with his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-4The psalmist's deep desire for God arises from being far away from the temple as he remembers the past. The verb translated as "longs" appears only here and in Joel 1:20 (meaning "cry out"). In both instances, it describes extreme thirst in a dry desert (see Psalms 63:1; 143:6; see also 84:2).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-111-2. Compare (Psa 63:1). panteth--desires in a state of exhaustion.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 42
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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