42:1 For the choir director. A maskil by the Sons of Korah. As a doe pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and appear before God?
42:3 My tears have been food for me day and night, while people are saying to me all day, “Where is your God?”
42:4 I am overcome by my emotions whenever I remember these things: how I used to arrive with the crowd, as I led the procession to the house of God, with loud shouts of thanksgiving, with the crowd celebrating the festival.
42:5 Why are you so depressed, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I will again praise him for salvation from his presence.
42:6 My God, my soul is depressed within me. Therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, from the heights of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
42:7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your rapids. All your breakers and your waves have swept over me.
42:8 By day the Lord commands his mercy, and at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.
42:9 I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go around mourning because of oppression by the enemy?”
42:10 It is like breaking my bones when my foes taunt me. All day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”
42:11 Why are you so depressed, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I will again praise him for my salvation from the face of my God.
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