God’s Word Translation
Psalms 42:1
1As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs 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.
- 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 a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come to see God’s face? 3My tears are my food day and night. People ask me all day long, “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 44:1O God, we have heard it with our own ears. Our ancestors have told us about the miracle you performed in their day, in days long ago.
- Psalms 45:1My heart is overflowing with good news. I will direct my song to the king. My tongue is a pen for a skillful writer.
- Psalms 46:1God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
- Psalms 47:1Clap your hands, all you people. Shout to God with a loud, joyful song.
- Psalms 48:1The Lord is great. He should be highly praised. His holy mountain is in the city of our God.
- Psalms 49:1Listen to this, all you people. Open your ears, all who live in the world—
- Psalms 84:1Your dwelling place is lovely, O Lord of Armies!
- Psalms 85:1You favored your land, O Lord. You restored the fortunes of Jacob.
- Numbers 16:1Korah (son of Izhar), Dathan and Abiram (sons of Eliab), and On (son of Peleth) dared to challenge Moses. (Korah was a descendant of Kohath and Levi. Dathan, Abiram, and On were descendants of Reuben.)
- Numbers 26:11But the descendants of Korah didn’t die.)
- 1 Chronicles 6:33These are the men who served (their descendants also served): The musician Heman was from Kohath’s family line. Heman was the son of Joel, who was the son of Samuel,
- 1 Chronicles 25:1David and the army commanders appointed the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to serve as prophets with lyres, harps, and cymbals. This is the list of the men who performed this service:
- Psalms 63:1O God, you are my God. At dawn I search for you. My soul thirsts for you. My body longs for you in a dry, parched land where there is no water.
- Psalms 84:2My soul longs and yearns for the Lord’s courtyards. My whole body shouts for joy to the living God.
- Psalms 143:6I stretch out my hands to you in prayer. Like parched land, my soul thirsts for you. Selah
- Isaiah 26:8Certainly, we wait with hope for you, O Lord, ⌞as we follow⌟ the path of your guiding principles. We want to remember you and 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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