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Psalm 42

	Psa 42:1	BOOK II Psalms 42-72 For the director of music. A maskil [fn] of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
	Psa 42:2	My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
	Psa 42:3	My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
	Psa 42:4	These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.
	Psa 42:5	Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and
	Psa 42:6	my God. My [fn] soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar.
	Psa 42:7	Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
	Psa 42:8	By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life.
	Psa 42:9	I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"
	Psa 42:10	My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
	Psa 42:11	Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.

NIV Footnotes:

In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.
(42:1) Title: Probably a literary or musical term
(42:5-6) A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts praise him for his saving help. / ⁶O my God, my

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