Thematic Bible

Psalm 42:1

([Sons of Korah]) As the deer desires the water brooks, so I desire you, O God.

Psalm 42:2

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

Psalm 42:3

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

Psalm 42:4

I remember these things and I pour out my heart within me. I used to go along with the crowd and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Psalm 42:5

Why am I discouraged? Why am I so restless? I put my hope in God for I will still praise him. He is my salvation and my God.

Psalm 42:6

I am very discouraged. That is why I will remember you in the land of Jordan, on the peaks of Hermon, on Mount Mizar.

Psalm 42:7

One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.

Psalm 42:8

Jehovah commands his mercy during the day, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 42:9

I will ask God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk around in mourning while the enemy oppresses me?
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Psalm 42:10

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?

Psalm 42:11

Why am I in despair? Why have I become disturbed within me? Wait for God for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance and my God.