Chapter 42
Psalms
Verse 1As a deer pants for flowing streams,so pants my soul for you, O God.Verse 2My soul thirsts for God,for the living God.When shall I come and appear before God?Verse 3My tears have been my foodday and night,while they say to me all the day long,“Where is your God?”Verse 4These things I remember,as I pour out my soul:how I would go with the throngand lead them in procession to the house of Godwith glad shouts and songs of praise,a multitude keeping festival.Verse 5Why are you cast down, O my soul,and why are you in turmoil within me?Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,my salvationVerse 6and my God.My soul is cast down within me;therefore I remember youfrom the land of Jordan and of Hermon,from Mount Mizar.Verse 7Deep calls to deepat the roar of your waterfalls;all your breakers and your waveshave gone over me.Verse 8By day the LORD commands his steadfast love,and at night his song is with me,a prayer to the God of my life.Verse 9I say to God, my rock:“Why have you forgotten me?Why do I go mourningbecause of the oppression of the enemy?”Verse 10As with a deadly wound in my bones,my adversaries taunt me,while they say to me all the day long,“Where is your God?”Verse 11Why are you cast down, O my soul,and why are you in turmoil within me?Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,my salvation and my God.
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