42:1 |
<> As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. |
42:2 |
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? |
42:3 |
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" |
42:4 |
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. |
42:5 |
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. |
42:6 |
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. |
42:7 |
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. |
42:8 |
Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. |
42:9 |
I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" |
42:10 |
As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" |
42:11 |
Why are you in despair, 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. |