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Psalms 42:1
1God, I need you so much! I look for you, as a thirsty deer looks for streams of water.
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
God, I need you so much! I look for you, as a thirsty deer looks for streams of water. 2Deep down inside me, I am very thirsty! You are the God who lives for ever, and I need life from you! When will I be able to come near to you and see you face to face? 3All day and all night I weep. My tears are my only food! My enemies say to me all the time, ‘Where is your God?’
Read all of Psalms 42Psalms 42:1 word by word
כְּאַיָּ֗ל תַּעֲרֹ֥ג עַל־אֲפִֽיקֵי־מָ֑יִם כֵּ֤ן נַפְשִׁ֨י תַעֲרֹ֖ג אֵלֶ֣יךָ אֱלֹהִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 42:1
- Psalms 44:1God, we have heard it for ourselves. Our ancestors told us what you did for them a long time ago.
- Psalms 45:1This beautiful song makes my heart very happy. I will sing this special poem to the king. My voice is ready to sing it very well, as well as a clever writer can write with a pen.
- Psalms 46:1God is a strong place for us, where he will keep us safe. He will always help us when troubles come.
- Psalms 47:1People from every nation, clap your hands together. Shout aloud to God, with the sound of happy songs.
- Psalms 48:1The Lord is great. He deserves that people praise him in the city of our God, on his holy mountain.
- Psalms 49:1Listen to this, people from every nation. Yes, listen carefully, everyone who lives in this world!
- Psalms 84:1Lord Almighty, the temple where you live is beautiful!
- Psalms 85:1Lord, you have blessed your land. You have made Jacob's descendants strong again.
- Numbers 16:1Then Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, decided to speak against Moses. Eliab's sons, Dathan and Abiram, and Peleth's son, On, who were descendants of Reuben, were with him.
- Numbers 26:11But Korah's clan did not all die at that time.
- 1 Chronicles 6:33These are the leaders of the music and their sons: From Kohath's clan: Heman the singer. He was Joel's son. Joel was Samuel's son.
- 1 Chronicles 25:1David and the army officers chose some Levites to serve God as musicians. They belonged to the families of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun. They chose these men to speak messages from God while they made music with harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is a list of the men that they chose for this work:
- Psalms 63:1God, you are my God. I want to be near to you. I need you to give me life, like a thirsty person in a dry desert. As a person needs water to live, that is how I need you.
- Psalms 84:2I want very much to go to the Lord's temple. I very much want to be in the temple yards. With all that I am, and with great joy, I sing to you, the God who lives for ever!
- Psalms 143:6I raise my hands to pray to you. I need you to help me, like dry ground needs rain. Selah
- Isaiah 26:8Yes, Lord, as we follow the path of your justice, we wait for you to help us. We really want people to know that you are great. We want them to praise your name.
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
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