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Psalm 42 – Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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My Soul Thirsts for God

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For the choir director. A [fn]Maskil of the sons of Korah.

As the deer [fn]pants for the water brooks,

So my soul [fn]pants for You, O God.

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My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;

When shall I come and [fn]appear before God?

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My tears have been my food day and night,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.

For I used to go along with the throng and [fn]lead them in procession to the house of God,

With the sound of a shout of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

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Why are you [fn]in despair, O my soul?

And why are you disturbed within me?

Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,

[fn]For the [fn]salvation of His presence.

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O my God, my soul is [fn]in despair within me;

Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan

And the [fn]peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

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Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;

All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

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By day, Yahweh will command His lovingkindness;

And by night, His song will be with me,

A prayer to the God of my life.

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I say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?

Why do I go mourning [fn]because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries reproach me,

While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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Why are you [fn]in despair, O my soul?

And why are you disturbed within me?

Wait for God, for I shall still praise Him,

The salvation of my presence and my God.

See the LSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
LSB Footnotes
Possibly Contemplative, Didactic, Skillful Psalm
Lit longs
Lit longs
Some mss see the face of God
Or move slowly with them
Or sunk down
Some ancient versions The help of my countenance and my God
Or saving acts
Or sunk down
Lit Hermons
Or while the enemy oppresses
Or sunk down
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Psalm Chapter 42 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Open New Arabic Version Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras