1 BOOK 2 Psalm 42 My Soul Thirsts for God For the choir director. A 42:0Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm Maskil of the sons of Korah.As the deer 42:1Lit longs pants for the water brooks,So my soul 42:1Lit longs pants for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;When shall I come and 42:2Some mss see the face of God appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,Whiletheysay to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.For I used to go along with the throngand 42:4Or move slowly with them lead them in procession to the house of God,With the sound of a shout of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
5 ¶Why are you 42:5Or sunk down in despair, O my soul?Andwhyare you disturbed within me?Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him, 42:5Some ancient versions The help of my countenance and my God Forthe 42:5Or saving acts salvation of His presence.
6 O my God, my soul is 42:6Or sunk down in despair within me;Therefore I remember You from the land of the JordanAnd the 42:6Lit Hermons peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
8 By day, Yahweh will command His lovingkindness;And by night, His song will be with me,A prayer to the God of my life.
9 ¶I say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?Why do I go mourning 42:9Or while the enemy oppresses because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries reproach me,While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11 Why are you 42:11Or sunk down in despair, O my soul?And why are you disturbed within me?Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,The salvation of my presence and my God.