Psalm 42:2
New International Version
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

New Living Translation
I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?

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

Berean Standard Bible
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

King James Bible
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

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

New American Standard Bible
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

NASB 1995
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

NASB 1977
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

Legacy Standard Bible
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?

Amplified Bible
My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God?

Christian Standard Bible
I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God?

American Standard Version
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
My soul is thirsty for you, Living God! When shall I come and see your face, oh, God?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Contemporary English Version
In my heart, I am thirsty for you, the living God. When will I see your face?

Douay-Rheims Bible
My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?

English Revised Version
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come to see God's face?

Good News Translation
I thirst for you, the living God. When can I go and worship in your presence?

International Standard Version
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When may I come and appear in God's presence?

JPS Tanakh 1917
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: 'When shall I come and appear before God?'

Literal Standard Version
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, | When do I enter and see the face of God?

Majority Standard Bible
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

New American Bible
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When can I enter and see the face of God?

NET Bible
I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, "When will I be able to go and appear in God's presence?"

New Revised Standard Version
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

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

Young's Literal Translation
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Blessed is He who Cares for the Poor
1For 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. 2My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence? 3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”…

Cross References
Matthew 16:16
Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Matthew 26:63
But Jesus remained silent. Then the high priest said to Him, "I charge You under oath by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God."

Romans 9:26
and, "It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, 'You are not My people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'"

1 Thessalonians 1:9
For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God

Revelation 22:4
They will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.

Exodus 23:17
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

Joshua 3:10
He continued, "This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.


Treasury of Scripture

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

thirsteth

Psalm 36:8,9
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures…

Psalm 63:1
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

John 7:37
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

living

Job 23:3
Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 10:10
But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

when

Psalm 27:4
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

Psalm 84:4,10
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah…

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Psalm 42
1. David's zeal to serve God in the temple
5. He encourages his soul to trust in God














(2) Thirsteth.--The metaphor occurs exactly in the same form (Psalm 63:1), and only calls for notice since "God" Himself is here made the subject of the thirst, instead of righteousness, or knowledge, or power, as in the familiar and frequent use of the metaphor in other parts of the Bible, and in other literature.

The living God.--Evidently, from the metaphor, regarded as the fountain or source of life. (Comp. Psalm 84:2; Psalm 36:9.)

Appear before God.--Exodus 23:17 shows that this was the usual phrase for frequenting the sanctuary (comp. Psalm 84:7), though poetic brevity here slightly altered its form and construction. . . .

Verse 2. - My soul thirsteth for God (comp. Psalm 63:1; Psalm 143:6; Isaiah 55:1). The devout soul is always athirst for God. David felt his severance from the tabernacle and its services as a sort of severance from God himself, whom he was accustomed to approach through the services of the sanctuary (see 2 Samuel 15:25, 26). For the living God. This title of God occurs only in one other psalm (Psalm 84:2); but it was a title familiar to David (1 Samuel 17:27). It is first used in Deuteronomy 5:26; and, later, in Joshua 3:10; 2 Kings 19:4, 16; Isaiah 37:4, 17; Jeremiah 10:10; Jeremiah 23:36; Daniel 6:26; Hosea 1:10. It expresses that essential attribute of God that he is "the eternal Life" (1 John 5:20), the Source and Origin of all life, whether angelic, human, or animal. When shall I come and appear before God? Appearance in the tabernacle must here be specially meant, but with this David connects his return to God's favour and to the light of his countenance (2 Samuel 15:25).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
My soul
נַפְשִׁ֨י ׀ (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

thirsts
צָמְאָ֬ה (ṣā·mə·’āh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6770: To be thirsty

for God,
לֵאלֹהִים֮ (lê·lō·hîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

the living
חָ֥י (ḥāy)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

God.
לְאֵ֪ל (lə·’êl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

When
מָתַ֥י (mā·ṯay)
Interrogative
Strong's 4970: Extent, when

shall I come
אָב֑וֹא (’ā·ḇō·w)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

and appear
וְ֝אֵרָאֶ֗ה (wə·’ê·rā·’eh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7200: To see

in
פְּנֵ֣י (pə·nê)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

God’s presence?
אֱלֹהִֽים׃ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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