Psalm 42
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1As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God.1As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.
2I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
3Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?”3My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”
4My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be: I walked among the crowds of worshipers, leading a great procession to the house of God, singing for joy and giving thanks amid the sound of a great celebration!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.
5Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and5Why 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
6my God! Now I am deeply discouraged, but I will remember you— even from distant Mount Hermon, the source of the Jordan, from the land of Mount Mizar.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.
7I hear the tumult of the raging seas as your waves and surging tides sweep over me.7Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.
8But each day the LORD pours his unfailing love upon me, and through each night I sing his songs, praying to God who gives me life.8By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
9“O God my rock,” I cry, “why have you forgotten me? Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies?”9I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10Their taunts break my bones. They scoff, “Where is this God of yours?”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?”
11Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior and my 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.
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Psalm 41
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