English Standard Version
Psalms 42:1
1As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.
- New Living Translation (NLT)As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.
Context of Psalms 42:1
As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 2My soul thirsts 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 say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"
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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 44:1O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:
- Psalms 45:1My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.
- Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- Psalms 47:1Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
- Psalms 48:1Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,
- Psalms 49:1Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
- Psalms 84:1How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts!
- Psalms 85:1Lord, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
- Numbers 16:1Now Korah the son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.
- Numbers 26:11But the sons of Korah did not die.
- 1 Chronicles 6:33These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel,
- 1 Chronicles 25:1David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was:
- Psalms 63:1O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
- Psalms 84:2My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
- Psalms 143:6I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
- Isaiah 26:8In the path of your judgments, O Lord, we wait for you; your name and remembrance are 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
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