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Psalms 42

1

As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul after you, O God.

2

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

3

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

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.

5

Why are you in despair, O my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

6

O 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.

7

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

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.

9

I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

10

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

11

Why are you in despair, O 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.



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