Psalm 42
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1As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.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.
2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?2I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God?
3My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”3My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me," Where is your God?"
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.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.
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 salvation5Why 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.
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.6I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
8By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.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.
9I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”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?"
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?”10My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me," Where is your God?"
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.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.
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Psalm 41
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