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Psalm 42 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Book Two: Psalms 42—72
Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:1 - To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[fn] of the sons of Korah.

As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:2 - My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:3 - My tears have been my food day and night,
While they continually say to me,
“Where is your God?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:4 - When I remember these things,
I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:5 - Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:6 - O my God,[fn] my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From the Hill Mizar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:7 - Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:8 - The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9 - I will say to God my Rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:10 - As with a breaking of my bones,
My enemies reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:11 - Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Hebrew Maschil
Following Masoretic Text and Vulgate; some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, and Targum read I see the face of God.
Following Masoretic Text and Targum; a few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read The help of my countenance, my God.
Following Masoretic Text and Targum; a few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate put my God at the end of verse 5.
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