Psalms 42

Hope in God in the Midst of Despair

1As a deer longs for streams of water,

so my soul longs for you, O God.

2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When shall I come and appear before God?

3My tears have been my food day and night,

while they say to me all day long,

“Where is your God?”

4These I remember and I pour out my soul within me:

that I would go with the multitude;

I led them in procession to the house of God,

with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving,

a crowd celebrating a festival.

5Why are you in despair, O my soul,[#Literally “bowed down”]

and disturbed within me?

Hope in God, because I will again praise him,

for the salvation of his presence.

6O my God, within me my soul is in despair;[#Literally “bowed down”]

therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan

and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar.

7Deep is calling to deep

at the thunder of your waterfalls.

All your breakers and your waves

have passed over me.

8By day Yahweh commands his loyal love,

and in the night his song is with me,

a prayer to the God of my life.

9I say to God, my rock,

“Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I walk about mourning

because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10As with a shattering in my bones

my oppressors taunt me,

while they say to me all day,

“Where is your God?”

11Why are you in despair, O my soul?[#Literally “bowed down”]

And why are you disturbed within me?

Hope in God, because I shall again praise him,

my salvation and my God.

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