Psalms, 42

1. For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites.

1. [For the choirmaster Poem Of the sons of Korah] As a deer yearns for running streams, so I yearn for you, my God.

2. As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God.

2. I thirst for God, the living God; when shall I go to see the face of God?

3. My being thirsts for God, the living God. When can I go and see the face of God?

3. I have no food but tears day and night, as all day long I am taunted, 'Where is your God?'

4. My tears have been my food day and night, as they ask daily,"Where is your God?"

4. This I remember as I pour out my heart, how I used to pass under the roof of the Most High used to go to the house of God, among cries of joy and praise, the sound of the feast.

5. Those times I recall as I pour out my soul, When I went in procession with the crowd, I went with them to the house of God, Amid loud cries of thanksgiving, with the multitude keeping festival.

5. Why be so downcast, why all these sighs? Hope in God! I will praise him still, my Saviour,

6. Why are you downcast, my soul; why do you groan within me? Wait for God, whom I shall praise again, my savior and my God.

6. my God. When I am downcast I think of you: from the land of Jordan and Hermon, I think of you, humble mountain.

7. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you From the land of the Jordan and Hermon, from the land of Mount Mizar.

7. Deep is calling to deep by the roar of your cataracts, all your waves and breakers have rolled over me.

8. Here deep calls to deep in the roar of your torrents. All your waves and breakers sweep over me.

8. In the daytime God sends his faithful love, and even at night; the song it inspires in me is a prayer to my living God.

9. At dawn may the LORD bestow faithful love that I may sing praise through the night, praise to the God of my life.

9. I shall say to God, my rock, 'Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go around in mourning, harrassed by the enemy?'

10. I say to God, "My rock, why do you forget me? Why must I go about mourning with the enemy oppressing me?"

10. With death in my bones, my enemies taunt me, all day long they ask me, 'Where is your God?'

11. It shatters my bones, when my adversaries reproach me. They say to me daily: "Where is your God?"

11. Why so downcast, why all these sighs? Hope in God! I will praise him still, my Saviour, my God.

12. Why are you downcast, my soul, why do you groan within me? Wait for God, whom I shall praise again, my savior and my God.

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