| 42:1 |
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. |
| 42:2 |
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? |
| 42:3 |
My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" |
| 42:4 |
These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng. |
| 42:5 |
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and |
| 42:6 |
my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar. |
| 42:7 |
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. |
| 42:8 |
By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me--a prayer to the God of my life. |
| 42:9 |
I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?" |
| 42:10 |
My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?" |
| 42:11 |
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. |
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