Psalms 42

Book II

(Psalms 42—72)

Psalm 42

Longing for God and His Help in Distress

To the leader. A Maskil of the Korahites.

1 # Ps 119.131 As a deer longs for flowing streams,

so my soul longs for you, O God.

2 # Ps 43.4; 63.1; Jer 10.10 My soul thirsts for God,

for the living God.

When shall I come and behold

the face of God?

3 # Ps 79.10; 80.5 My tears have been my food

day and night,

while people say to me continually,

“Where is your God?”

4 # Ps 62.8; 100.4; Isa 30.29 These things I remember,

as I pour out my soul:

how I went with the throng#42.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain

and led them in procession to the house of God,

with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,

a multitude keeping festival.

5 # Ps 38.6; 44.3; 77.3; Lam 3.24 Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,

my help 6and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;

therefore I remember you

from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,

from Mount Mizar.

7 # Ps 88.7; Jon 2.3 Deep calls to deep

at the thunder of your torrents;

all your waves and your billows

have gone over me.

8 # Job 35.10; Ps 57.3; 63.6; 149.5 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,

and at night his song is with me,

a prayer to the God of my life.

9 # Ps 38.6 I say to God, my rock,

“Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I walk about mournfully

because the enemy oppresses me?”

10 # v 3 As with a deadly wound in my body,

my adversaries taunt me,

while they say to me continually,

“Where is your God?”

11 # v 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you disquieted within me?

Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,

my help and my God.

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