| 1 | As the hart pants
and
longs for the water brooks, so I pant
and
long for You, O God. |
| 2 | My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? |
| 3 | My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God? |
| 4 | These things I [earnestly] remember and pour myself out within me: how I went slowly before the throng and led them in procession to the house of God [like a bandmaster before his band, timing the steps to the sound of music and the chant of song], with the voice of shouting and praise, a throng keeping festival. |
| 5 | Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me
and
be disquieted within me? Hope in God
and
wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God. |
| 6 | O my God, my life is cast down upon me [and I find the burden more than I can bear]; therefore will I [earnestly] remember You from the land of the Jordan [River] and the [summits of Mount] Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar. |
| 7 | [Roaring] deep calls to [roaring] deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me. |
| 8 | Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. |
| 9 | I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
| 10 | As with a sword [crushing] in my bones, my enemies taunt
and
reproach me, while they say continually to me, Where is your God? |
| 11 | Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me
and
be disquieted within me? Hope in God
and
wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God. |
Cross references:
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Psalm 42:2 : John 7:37; I Thess. 1:9, 10.
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