Psalms 42:1

Psalms 42:1 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
• New International Version (NIV)As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
• English Standard Version (ESV)As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
• New King James Version (NKJV)As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.

Context of Psalms 42:1

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God? 3My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

Psalms 42:1 word by word

כְּאַיָּ֗ל תַּעֲרֹ֥ג עַל־אֲפִֽיקֵי־מָ֑יִם כֵּ֤ן נַפְשִׁ֨י תַעֲרֹ֖ג אֵלֶ֣יךָ אֱלֹהִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Psalms 42:1

• Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
• Psalms 45:1My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
• Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
• Psalms 47:1Oh clap your hands, all ye peoples; Shout unto God with the voice of triumph.
• Psalms 48:1Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.
• Psalms 49:1Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
• Psalms 84:1How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!
• Psalms 85:1Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land; Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
• Numbers 16:1Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, tookmen:
• Numbers 26:11Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah died not.
• 1 Chronicles 6:33And these are they that waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
• 1 Chronicles 25:1Moreover David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of them that did the work according to their service was:
• Psalms 63:1O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
• Psalms 84:2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
• Psalms 143:6I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soulthirstethafter thee, as a weary land. [Selah
• Isaiah 26:8Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial name, is the desire of our soul.

Commentaries on Psalms 42:1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1As the hart panteth after the water brooks - The hart is not only fond of feeding near some water for the benefit of drinking, "but when he is hard hunted, and nearly spent, he will take to some river or brook, in which," says Tuberville, "he will keep as long as his breath will suffer him. Understand that when a hart is spent and sore run, his last refuge is to the water; and he will commonly descend down the streame and swimme in the very middest…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1As the hart panteth after the water-brooks - Margin, brayeth. The word rendered hart - איל 'ayâl - means commonly a stag, hart, male deer: Deuteronomy 12:15; Deuteronomy 14:5; Isaiah 35:6. The word is masculine, but in this place is joined with a feminine verb, as words of the common gender may be, and thus denotes a hind, or female deer. The word rendered in the text “panteth,” and in the margin “brayeth” - ערג ‛ârag - occurs only in this place and in…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1The conflict in the soul of a believer. Verses 1-5 The psalmist looked to the Lord as his chief good, and set his heart upon him accordingly; casting anchor thus at first, he rides out the storm. A gracious soul can take little satisfaction in God's courts, if it do not meet with God himself there. Living souls never can take up their rest any where short of a living God. To appear before the Lord is the desire of the upright, as it is the dread of the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1The sons of Korah were members of a Levitical choir. They were chosen by David to serve as singers in the temple (see 1 Chronicles 6:22–38; 9:19–34; 2 Chronicles 20:19). Their ancestor Korah was the rebel who opposed Moses and was swallowed by the earth (Exodus 6:24; Numbers 16).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