Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? New Living Translation I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him? English Standard Version My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? Berean Standard Bible My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence? King James Bible My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? New King James Version My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? New American Standard Bible My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God? NASB 1995 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God? NASB 1977 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God? Legacy Standard Bible My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God? Amplified Bible My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God? Christian Standard Bible I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? Holman Christian Standard Bible I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? American Standard Version My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God? Contemporary English Version In my heart, I am thirsty for you, the living God. When will I see your face? English Revised Version My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? GOD'S WORD® Translation My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come to see God's face? Good News Translation I thirst for you, the living God. When can I go and worship in your presence? International Standard Version My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come and appear in God's presence? Majority Standard Bible My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence? NET Bible I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, "When will I be able to go and appear in God's presence?" New Heart English Bible My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? Webster's Bible Translation My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? World English Bible My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionMy soul thirsted for God, for the living God, "" When do I enter and see the face of God? Young's Literal Translation My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God? Smith's Literal Translation My soul thirsted for God, for the living God: when shall I come and see the face of God? Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleMy soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God? Catholic Public Domain Version New American Bible My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When can I enter and see the face of God? New Revised Standard Version My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleMy soul thirsts after thee, O living God; when shall I come to see thy face? Peshitta Holy Bible Translated My soul is thirsty for you, Living God! When shall I come and see your face, oh, God? OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: 'When shall I come and appear before God?' Brenton Septuagint Translation My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Blessed is He who Cares for the Poor…1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. 2My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence? 3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”… Cross References John 7:37-38 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. / Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’” Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Revelation 21:6 And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life. Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely. John 4:13-14 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. / But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.” Isaiah 55:1 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! Psalm 63:1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water. Psalm 84:2 My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Psalm 143:6 I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water. Amos 8:11 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord GOD, when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD. Isaiah 12:3 With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation, Isaiah 41:17 The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. John 6:35 Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst. Treasury of Scripture My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? thirsteth Psalm 36:8,9 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures… Psalm 63:1 A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. living Job 23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. when Psalm 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple. Psalm 84:4,10 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah… Jump to Previous Appear Dry Enter Face Meet Need Soul Thirsted Thirsteth ThirstsJump to Next Appear Dry Enter Face Meet Need Soul Thirsted Thirsteth ThirstsPsalm 42 1. David's zeal to serve God in the temple5. He encourages his soul to trust in God My soul thirsts for God The phrase "My soul thirsts for God" captures a deep, intrinsic longing for the divine presence. The Hebrew word for "soul" is "nephesh," which refers to the entire being or life force of a person. This indicates that the psalmist's desire for God is not superficial but encompasses his whole existence. The metaphor of "thirst" suggests an intense, essential need, akin to the physical necessity for water. In the arid climate of ancient Israel, water was a precious and life-sustaining resource, making this metaphor particularly poignant. The psalmist's yearning for God reflects a universal human condition, a spiritual void that only the Creator can fill. the living God When shall I come and appear before God? The living God.--Evidently, from the metaphor, regarded as the fountain or source of life. (Comp. Psalm 84:2; Psalm 36:9.) Appear before God.--Exodus 23:17 shows that this was the usual phrase for frequenting the sanctuary (comp. Psalm 84:7), though poetic brevity here slightly altered its form and construction. . . . Verse 2. - My soul thirsteth for God (comp. Psalm 63:1; Psalm 143:6; Isaiah 55:1). The devout soul is always athirst for God. David felt his severance from the tabernacle and its services as a sort of severance from God himself, whom he was accustomed to approach through the services of the sanctuary (see 2 Samuel 15:25, 26). For the living God. This title of God occurs only in one other psalm (Psalm 84:2); but it was a title familiar to David (1 Samuel 17:27). It is first used in Deuteronomy 5:26; and, later, in Joshua 3:10; 2 Kings 19:4, 16; Isaiah 37:4, 17; Jeremiah 10:10; Jeremiah 23:36; Daniel 6:26; Hosea 1:10. It expresses that essential attribute of God that he is "the eternal Life" (1 John 5:20), the Source and Origin of all life, whether angelic, human, or animal. When shall I come and appear before God? Appearance in the tabernacle must here be specially meant, but with this David connects his return to God's favour and to the light of his countenance (2 Samuel 15:25).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew My soulנַפְשִׁ֨י ׀ (nap̄·šî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion thirsts צָמְאָ֬ה (ṣā·mə·’āh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 6770: To be thirsty for God, לֵאלֹהִים֮ (lê·lō·hîm) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative the living חָ֥י (ḥāy) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life God. לְאֵ֪ל (lə·’êl) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty When מָתַ֥י (mā·ṯay) Interrogative Strong's 4970: Extent, when shall I come אָב֑וֹא (’ā·ḇō·w) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go and appear וְ֝אֵרָאֶ֗ה (wə·’ê·rā·’eh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 7200: To see in פְּנֵ֣י (pə·nê) Noun - common plural construct Strong's 6440: The face God’s presence? אֱלֹהִֽים׃ (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative Links Psalm 42:2 NIVPsalm 42:2 NLT Psalm 42:2 ESV Psalm 42:2 NASB Psalm 42:2 KJV Psalm 42:2 BibleApps.com Psalm 42:2 Biblia Paralela Psalm 42:2 Chinese Bible Psalm 42:2 French Bible Psalm 42:2 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Psalm 42:2 My soul thirsts for God (Psalm Ps Psa.) |
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