Psalm 42
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1 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. 1As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.
2I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? 2I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?
3My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me," Where is your God?" 3Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?”
4I 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. 4My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be: I walked among the crowds of worshipers, leading a great procession to the house of God, singing for joy and giving thanks amid the sound of a great celebration!
5Why 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. 5Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and
6I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 6my God! Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you— even from distant Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan, from the land of Mount Mizar.
7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. 7I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.
8The 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. 8But each day the LORD pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life.
9I will say to God, my rock," Why have You forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression?" 9“O God my rock,” I cry, “why have you forgotten me? Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies?”
10My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me," Where is your God?" 10Their taunts break my bones. They scoff, “Where is this God of yours?”
11Why 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. 11Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and my God!
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Psalm 41
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