New American Standard Bible 1995

Psalms 42:1-11

1 1As the deer 2pants for the water brooks, So my soul 3 4pants for You, O God.2My soul 5thirsts for God, for the 6living God; When shall I come and 7 8appear before God?3My 9tears have been my food day and night, While they 10say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”4These things I remember and I 11pour out my soul within me. For I 12used to go along with the throng and 13lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of 14joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

5 15Why are you 16 17in despair, O my soul? And why have you become 18disturbed within me? 19 20Hope in God, for I shall 21again praise 22Him For the 23 24help of His presence.6O my God, my soul is 25in despair within me; Therefore I 26remember You from 27the land of the Jordan And the 28peaks of 29Hermon, from Mount Mizar.7Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your 30breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.8The Lord will 31command His lovingkindness in the daytime; And His song will be with me 32in the night, A prayer to 33the God of my life.

9I will say to God 34my rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go 35mourning 36because of the 37oppression of the enemy?”10As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, While they 38say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”11 39Why are you 40in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? 41Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The 42help of my countenance and my God.

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Notes

1. Psalms 42:1 Possibly Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful Psalm ↩
2. Psalms 42:1 Lit longs for ↩
3. Psalms 42:1 Lit longs for ↩
4. Psalms 42:1 Ps 119:131 ↩
5. Psalms 42:2 Ps 63:1; 84:2; 143:6 ↩
6. Psalms 42:2 Josh 3:10; Ps 84:2; Jer 10:10; Dan 6:26; Matt 26:63; Rom 9:26; 1 Thess 1:9 ↩
7. Psalms 42:2 Some mss read see the face of God ↩
8. Psalms 42:2 Ex 23:17; Ps 43:4; 84:7 ↩
9. Psalms 42:3 Ps 80:5; 102:9 ↩
10. Psalms 42:3 Ps 79:10; 115:2; Joel 2:17; Mic 7:10 ↩
11. Psalms 42:4 1 Sam 1:15; Job 30:16; Ps 62:8; Lam 2:19 ↩
12. Psalms 42:4 Ps 55:14; 122:1; Is 30:29 ↩
13. Psalms 42:4 Or move slowly with them ↩
14. Psalms 42:4 Ps 100:4 ↩
15. Psalms 42:5 Ps 42:11; 43:5 ↩
16. Psalms 42:5 Or sunk down ↩
17. Psalms 42:5 Ps 38:6; Matt 26:38 ↩
18. Psalms 42:5 Ps 77:3 ↩
19. Psalms 42:5 Or Wait for ↩
20. Psalms 42:5 Ps 71:14; Lam 3:24 ↩
21. Psalms 42:5 Or still ↩
22. Psalms 42:5 Some ancient versions read Him, the help of my countenance and my God ↩
23. Psalms 42:5 Or saving acts of ↩
24. Psalms 42:5 Ps 44:3 ↩
25. Psalms 42:6 Or sunk down ↩
26. Psalms 42:6 Ps 61:2 ↩
27. Psalms 42:6 2 Sam 17:22 ↩
28. Psalms 42:6 Lit Hermons ↩
29. Psalms 42:6 Deut 3:8 ↩
30. Psalms 42:7 Ps 69:1, 2; 88:7; Jon 2:3 ↩
31. Psalms 42:8 Ps 57:3; 133:3 ↩
32. Psalms 42:8 Job 35:10; Ps 16:7; 63:6; 77:6; 149:5 ↩
33. Psalms 42:8 Eccl 5:18; 8:15 ↩
34. Psalms 42:9 Ps 18:2 ↩
35. Psalms 42:9 Ps 38:6 ↩
36. Psalms 42:9 Or while the enemy oppresses ↩
37. Psalms 42:9 Ps 17:9 ↩
38. Psalms 42:10 Ps 42:3; Joel 2:17 ↩
39. Psalms 42:11 Ps 42:5; 43:5 ↩
40. Psalms 42:11 Or sunk down ↩
41. Psalms 42:11 Or Wait for ↩
42. Psalms 42:11 Or saving acts of ↩

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