Psalm 42:5
Literal Standard Version
Chapter overview
Psalm 42 compares spiritual longing to a deer's thirst in dry country. Tears, taunts, remembered festivals, roaring waterfalls, and inner turmoil are repeatedly answered by the soul's call to hope and praise again.
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1TO THE OVERSEER. AN INSTRUCTION OF THE SONS OF KORAH. As a deer pants for streams of water, || So my soul pants toward You, O God.
2My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, || When do I enter and see the face of God?
3My tear has been bread day and night to me, || In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
4These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, || For I pass over into the shelter, || I go softly with them to the house of God, || With the voice of singing and confession, || The multitude keeping celebration!
5Why bow yourself, O my soul? Indeed, are you troubled within me? Wait for God, for I still confess Him: The salvation of my countenance—my God!
6My soul bows itself in me, || Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan, || And of the Hermons, from Mount Mizar.
7Deep is calling to deep || At the noise of Your waterspouts, || All Your breakers and Your billows passed over me.
8By day YHWH commands His kindness, || And by night a song [is] with me, || A prayer to the God of my life.
9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning in the oppression of an enemy?”
10With a sword in my bones || My adversaries have reproached me, || In their saying to me all the day, “Where [is] your God?”
11Why bow yourself, O my soul? And why are you troubled within me? Wait for God, for I still confess Him, || The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
Verses to memorize from Psalm 42
- Psalm 42:5Why bow yourself, O my soul? Indeed, are you troubled within me? Wait…
- Psalm 42:11Why bow yourself, O my soul? And why are you troubled within me? Wait…
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