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42:1  This is a special song for the music leader. The sons of Korah wrote it. God, I need you so much! I look for you, as a thirsty deer looks for streams of water.
42:2  Deep down inside me, I am very thirsty! You are the God who lives for ever, and I need life from you! When will I be able to come near to you and see you face to face?
42:3  All day and all night I weep. My tears are my only food! My enemies say to me all the time, ‘Where is your God?’
42:4  When I remember how my life was before, I am very upset and I weep. Once I walked with a big crowd of people to worship God in his temple. I led the people there as we sang happy songs, and we praised God with loud voices.
42:5  Now I ask myself, ‘Why am I so sad and upset?’ I must wait patiently for God to help me. Then I will praise my God once again, because he is the one who saves me.
42:6  Deep inside me I am very sad. So I will turn to you, my God, from where I am. I will pray to you from Hermon mountain where the Jordan River begins, and from Mizar mountain.
42:7  I hear your waterfalls make a noise like thunder. It seems like all that water is pouring over me and it knocks me down to the ground.
42:8  Each day, the Lord shows me that he loves me with his faithful love. Each night he gives me a song to sing, as I pray to the God who lives for ever.
42:9  I say to God, who is my high rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me? Why must I be so sad? How much longer must I continue to weep, because my enemies do cruel things to me?’
42:10  My enemies laugh at me all the time. It is like they are breaking all my bones. They are always saying, ‘Where is your God?’
42:11  I ask myself again, ‘Why am I so sad and upset?’ I must wait patiently for God to help me. Then I will praise my God once again, because he is the one who saves me.