Psalms 42 / 150
- 1(Book Two)
(Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?)To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.
As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
- 2
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
- 3
My tears have been my food
day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
"Where is your God?"
- 4
These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.
- 5
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation
- 6
and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
- 7
Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
have gone over me.
- 8
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
- 9
I say to God, my rock:
"Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?"
- 10
As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
"Where is your God?"
- 11
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.