Thematic Bible
Psalm 42:1 (show verse)
So my
Psalm 42:2 (show verse)
My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God.
When will I come and see the face of God?
Psalm 42:3 (show verse)
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 42:4 (show verse)
These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul;
How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song],
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.
Psalm 42:5 (show verse)
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become restless and disturbed within me?
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.
Psalm 42:6 (show verse)
O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];
Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Psalm 42:7 (show verse)
Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
Psalm 42:8 (show verse)
Yet the Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song will be with me,
A prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:9 (show verse)
I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
No Themes for this verse.
Psalm 42:10 (show verse)
As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”
Psalm 42:11 (show verse)
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
Why have you become restless and disquieted within me?
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him,
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