| Chapter 42 |
1 | As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul after you, God.
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2 | My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
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3 | My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, 'Where is your God?'
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4 | These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
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5 | Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
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6 | My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, The heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
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7 | Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
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8 | Yahweh will command his lovingkindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: A prayer to the God of my life.
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9 | I will ask God, my rock, 'Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?'
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10 | As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, 'Where is your God?'
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11 | Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, The saving help of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 43
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