Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
When can I come and appear before God?
New American Standard Bible
When shall I come and
King James Version
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
International Standard Version
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come and appear in God's presence?
A Conservative Version
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
American Standard Version
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?
Amplified
My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God.
When will I come and see the face of God?
Bible in Basic English
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?
Darby Translation
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Julia Smith Translation
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God: when shall I come and see the face of God?
King James 2000
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Lexham Expanded Bible
My soul thirsts for God, for [the] living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Modern King James verseion
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and appear before God?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living God; when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?
NET Bible
I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, "When will I be able to go and appear in God's presence?"
New Heart English Bible
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
The Emphasized Bible
My soul thirsteth for God, for a GOD who liveth, - When shall I enter in, and see the face of God?
Webster
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
World English Bible
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
Youngs Literal Translation
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?
Themes
Desires » Select readings, psalms 42; 84 ps 42; 84 » Spiritual thirst, examples of
The Heart » Illustrative » (panting for water,) of afflicted saints longing for God
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » Thirst
Topics
Devotionals
Devotionals about Psalm 42:2
Devotionals containing Psalm 42:2
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 42:2
Prayers for Psalm 42:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
1
BOOK II
(Psalms 42–72)For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
so I long for You, God.
When can I come and appear before God?
while all day long people say to me,
“Where is your God?”
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 63:1
A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.
I thirst for You;
my body faints for You
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.
Psalm 84:2
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh cry out for
Jeremiah 10:10
He is the living God
The earth quakes at His wrath,
and the nations cannot endure His rage.
John 7:37
On the last and most important day of the festival,
1 Thessalonians 1:9
for they themselves report
Exodus 23:17
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God.
Joshua 3:10
He said: “You will know that the living God is among you
Job 23:3
so that I could go to His throne.
Psalm 27:4
it is what I desire:
to dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
gazing on the beauty of the Lord
and seeking Him in His temple.
Psalm 36:8-9
You let them drink from Your refreshing stream,
Psalm 43:4
to God, my greatest joy.
I will praise You with the lyre,
God, my God.
Psalm 84:4
who praise You continually.
Psalm 84:7
each appears before God in Zion.
Psalm 84:10
than a thousand anywhere else.
I would rather be at the door of the house of my God
than to live in the tents of wicked people.
Jeremiah 2:13
They have abandoned Me,
the fountain of living water,
and dug cisterns for themselves,
cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
Daniel 6:26
I issue a decree
and He endures forever;
His kingdom will never be destroyed,
and His dominion has no end.
John 5:26
Revelation 22:1
Then he showed me the river