Psalm 42
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1For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God! 1As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
2I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, "When will I be able to go and appear in God's presence?" 2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
3I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?" 3My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
4I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival. 4These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
5Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention. 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 salvation
6I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 6and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7One deep stream calls out to another at the sound of your waterfalls; all your billows and waves overwhelm me. 7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
8By day the LORD decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God. 8By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
9I will pray to God, my high ridge: "Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?" 9I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10My enemies' taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" 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?”
11Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention. 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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Psalm 41
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