Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall 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?
Holman Bible
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 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 To the Chief Musician. A contemplation; for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after 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 the day, Where is your God?
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 63:1
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God.
Jeremiah 10:10
But Jehovah is the true God, He is the living God, and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to stand His fury.
John 7:37
And in the last day of the great feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves witness what kind of entrance we had to you, even how you turned from idols to God in order to serve the living and true God,
Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Job 23:3
Oh that I knew where I might find Him, that I might come even to His seat!
Psalm 27:4
One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.
Psalm 36:8-9
They shall be satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall make them drink of the river of Your pleasures.
Psalm 43:4
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; yea, on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.
Psalm 84:4
Blessed are they who dwell in Your house; they will still praise You. Selah.
Psalm 84:7
They go from strength to strength, appearing in Zion before God.
Psalm 84:10
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in 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 out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Daniel 6:26
I make a decree that in all the domain of my kingdom, there shall be trembling and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God, and endures forever, and His kingdom is that which shall not be destroyed, and His rule shall be to the end.
John 5:26
For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has given to the Son to have life within Himself,
Revelation 22:1
And he showed me a pure river of Water of Life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.