Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?

King James Version

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Holman Bible

I thirst for God, the living God.
When can 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?

Devotionals

Devotionals about Psalm 42:2

Devotionals containing Psalm 42:2

References

Hastings

Images Psalm 42:2

Prayers for Psalm 42:2

Context Readings

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

1 For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Cross References

Psalm 63:1

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 84:2

My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
At His wrath the earth quakes,
And the nations cannot endure His indignation.

John 7:37

Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves report about us what kind of a reception we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,

Exodus 23:17

Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

Joshua 3:10

Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will assuredly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

Job 23:3

“Oh that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!

Psalm 27:4

One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord
And to meditate in His temple.

Psalm 36:8-9

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;
And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

Psalm 43:4

Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

Psalm 84:4

How blessed are those who dwell in Your house!
They are ever praising You. Selah.

Psalm 84:7

They go from strength to strength,
Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Jeremiah 2:13

“For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me,
The fountain of living waters,
To hew for themselves cisterns,
Broken cisterns
That can hold no water.

Daniel 6:26

I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel;
For He is the living God and enduring forever,
And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed,
And His dominion will be forever.

John 5:26

For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself;

Revelation 22:1

Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb,

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