< Psalms 42 >

1 For 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.
TO THE OVERSEER. AN INSTRUCTION OF THE SONS OF KORAH. As a deer pants for streams of water, So my soul pants toward You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?
3 My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
My tear has been bread day and night to me, In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
4 These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the shelter, I go softly with them to the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping celebration!
5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
Why bow yourself, O my soul? Indeed, are you troubled within me? Wait for God, for I still confess Him: The salvation of my countenance—my God!
6 O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.
My soul bows itself in me, Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
Deep is calling to deep At the noise of Your waterspouts, All Your breakers and Your billows passed over me.
8 The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
By day YHWH commands His kindness, And by night a song [is] with me, A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning in the oppression of an enemy?”
10 Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
With a sword in my bones My adversaries have reproached me, In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Why bow yourself, O my soul? And why are you troubled within me? Wait for God, for I still confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

< Psalms 42 >