(A)Why are you [a](B)in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become (C)disturbed within me?
[b](D)Hope in God, for I shall [c]again praise [d]Him
For the [e](E)help of His presence.
O my God, my soul is [f]in despair within me;
Therefore I (F)remember You from (G)the land of the Jordan
And the [g]peaks of (H)Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your (I)breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:5 Or sunk down
  2. Psalm 42:5 Or Wait for
  3. Psalm 42:5 Or still
  4. Psalm 42:5 Some ancient versions read Him, the help of my countenance and my God
  5. Psalm 42:5 Or saving acts of
  6. Psalm 42:6 Or sunk down
  7. Psalm 42:6 Lit Hermons

Why, my soul, are you downcast?(A)
    Why so disturbed(B) within me?
Put your hope in God,(C)
    for I will yet praise(D) him,
    my Savior(E) and my God.(F)

My soul is downcast within me;
    therefore I will remember(G) you
from the land of the Jordan,(H)
    the heights of Hermon(I)—from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep(J)
    in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
    have swept over me.(K)

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