Parallel Verses
World English Bible
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 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?
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 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, 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 continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 63:1
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Jeremiah 10:10
But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to withstand his indignation.
John 7:37
Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you; and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
Joshua 3:10
Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.
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 asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalm 36:8-9
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will 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. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
Psalm 84:4
Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
Psalm 84:7
They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.
Psalm 84:10
For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Jeremiah 2:13
"For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Daniel 6:26
I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever, His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
John 5:26
For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
Revelation 22:1
He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,