Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come and appear in God's presence?

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?

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 As an antelope pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, God. 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come and appear in God's presence? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, "Where is your God?"


Cross References

Psalm 63:1

God, you are my God! I will fervently seek you. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you in a dry, weary, and parched land.

Psalm 84:2

I desire and long for the Temple courts of the LORD. My heart and body sing for joy to the living God.

Jeremiah 10:10

The LORD is the true God; he's the living God and the everlasting king. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.

John 7:37

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For people keep telling us what kind of welcome you gave us and how you turned away from idols to serve a living and true God

Exodus 23:17

Three times a year all your males shall appear in the presence of the Lord GOD."

Joshua 3:10

Joshua continued, "This is how you'll know that the living God really is among you: he's going to remove the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites right in front of you.

Job 23:3

If only I knew where to find him, I would visit him where he has taken his seat.

Psalm 27:4

I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I really seek: that I may remain in the LORD's Temple all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD; and to inquire in his Temple.

Psalm 36:8-9

They are refreshed from the abundance of your house; You cause them to drink from the river of your pleasures.

Psalm 43:4

Then I will approach the altar of God, even to God in whom my joy finds its source. Then I will praise you with the lyre, God, my God,

Psalm 84:4

How happy are those who live in your Temple, for they can praise you continuously. Interlude

Psalm 84:7

They will walk from strength to strength; each will appear before God in Zion.

Psalm 84:10

for a day in your Temple courts is better than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather stand at the entrance of God's house than live in the tent of wickedness.

Jeremiah 2:13

"Indeed, my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."

Daniel 6:26

"I hereby decree that in every area of my kingdom men are to fear and tremble before the God of Daniel. For he is the living God, who endures forever. His kingdom is one that will not be destroyed, and his dominion continues forever.

John 5:26

Just as the Father has life in himself, so also he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

Revelation 22:1

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal. It was flowing from the throne of God and the lamb.

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