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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?

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?

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 Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God. 2 My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?


Cross References

Psalm 63:1

O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

Psalm 84:2

The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

John 7:37

On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

Exodus 23:17

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord God.

Joshua 3:10

And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.

Job 23:3

If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

Psalm 27:4

One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

Psalm 36:8-9

The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

Psalm 43:4

Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

Psalm 84:4

Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

Psalm 84:7

They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

Daniel 6:26

It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end.

John 5:26

For even as the Father has life in himself, so he has given to the Son to have life in himself.

Revelation 22:1

And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,

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