Thematic Bible

Psalm 42:1

BOOK II
(Psalms 42–72)
For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for You, God.

Psalm 42:2

I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I come and appear before God?

Psalm 42:3

My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
“Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:4

I remember this as I pour out my heart:
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.

Psalm 42:5

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.

Psalm 42:6

I am deeply depressed;
therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan
and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Psalm 42:7

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.

Psalm 42:8

The Lord will send His faithful love by day;
His song will be with me in the night—
a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 42:9

I will say to God, my rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?”
No Themes for this verse.

Psalm 42:10

My adversaries taunt me,
as if crushing my bones,
while all day long they say to me,
“Where is your God?”

Psalm 42:11

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.