Psalm 42

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Psalm 42

Thirsting for God in Trouble and Exile.

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As the deer ^(b)pants for the water brooks,
So my soul ^(c)^(A)pants for You, O God.

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My soul ^(B)thirsts for God, for the ^(C)living God;
When shall I come and ^(d)^(D)appear before God?

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My ^(E)tears have been my food day and night,
While they ^(F)say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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These things I remember and I ^(G)pour out my soul within me.
For I ^(H)used to go along with the throng and ^(e)lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the voice of ^(I)joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

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^(J)Why are you ^(f)^(K)in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become ^(L)disturbed within me?
^(g)^(M)Hope in God, for I shall ^(h)again praise ⁽ⁱ⁾Him
For the ^(j)^(N)help of His presence.

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O my God, my soul is ^(k)in despair within me;
Therefore I ^(O)remember You from ^(P)the land of the Jordan
And the ^(l)peaks of ^(Q)Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

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Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your ^(R)breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

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The Lord will ^(S)command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me ^(T)in the night,
A prayer to ^(U)the God of my life.

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I will say to God ^(V)my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go ^(W)mourning ^(m)because of the ^(X)oppression of the enemy?”

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As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they ^(Y)say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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^(Z)Why are you ⁽ⁿ⁾in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
^(o)Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The ^(p)help of my countenance and my God.

Footnotes:

a. Psalm 42:1: ['Possibly ', Contemplative, ', or ', Didactic, ', or ', Skillful Psalm]

b. Psalm 42:1: ['Lit ', longs for]

c. Psalm 42:1: ['Lit ', longs for]

d. Psalm 42:2: ['Some mss read ', see the face of God]

e. Psalm 42:4: ['Or ', move slowly with them]

f. Psalm 42:5: ['Or ', sunk down]

g. Psalm 42:5: ['Or ', Wait for]

h. Psalm 42:5: ['Or ', still]

i. Psalm 42:5: ['Some ancient versions read ', Him, the help of my countenance and my God]

j. Psalm 42:5: ['Or ', saving acts of]

k. Psalm 42:6: ['Or ', sunk down]

l. Psalm 42:6: ['Lit ', Hermons]

m. Psalm 42:9: ['Or ', while the enemy oppresses]

n. Psalm 42:11: ['Or ', sunk down]

o. Psalm 42:11: ['Or ', Wait for]

p. Psalm 42:11: ['Or ', saving acts of]

Cross references:

A. Psalm 42:1: Psalm 119:131

B. Psalm 42:2: Psalm 63:1; Psalm 84:2; Psalm 143:6

C. Psalm 42:2: Joshua 3:10; Psalm 84:2; Jeremiah 10:10; Daniel 6:26; Matthew 26:63; Romans 9:26; 1 Thessalonians 1:9

D. Psalm 42:2: Exodus 23:17; Psalm 43:4; Psalm 84:7

E. Psalm 42:3: Psalm 80:5; Psalm 102:9

F. Psalm 42:3: Psalm 79:10; Psalm 115:2; Joel 2:17; Micah 7:10

G. Psalm 42:4: 1 Samuel 1:15; Job 30:16; Psalm 62:8; Lamentations 2:19

H. Psalm 42:4: Psalm 55:14; Psalm 122:1; Isaiah 30:29

I. Psalm 42:4: Psalm 100:4

J. Psalm 42:5: Psalm 42:11; Psalm 43:5

K. Psalm 42:5: Psalm 38:6; Matthew 26:38

L. Psalm 42:5: Psalm 77:3

M. Psalm 42:5: Psalm 71:14; Lamentations 3:24

N. Psalm 42:5: Psalm 44:3

O. Psalm 42:6: Psalm 61:2

P. Psalm 42:6: 2 Samuel 17:22

Q. Psalm 42:6: Deuteronomy 3:8

R. Psalm 42:7: Psalm 69:1; Psalm 69:2; Psalm 88:7; Jonah 2:3

S. Psalm 42:8: Psalm 57:3; Psalm 133:3

T. Psalm 42:8: Job 35:10; Psalm 16:7; Psalm 63:6; Psalm 77:6; Psalm 149:5

V. Psalm 42:9: Psalm 18:2

W. Psalm 42:9: Psalm 38:6

X. Psalm 42:9: Psalm 17:9

Y. Psalm 42:10: Psalm 42:3; Joel 2:17

Z. Psalm 42:11: Psalm 42:5; Psalm 43:5