I will say to God (A)my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go (B)mourning [a]because of the (C)oppression of the enemy?”
10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they (D)say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
11 (E)Why are you [b]in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
[c]Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The [d]help of my countenance and my God.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:9 Or while the enemy oppresses
  2. Psalm 42:11 Or sunk down
  3. Psalm 42:11 Or Wait for
  4. Psalm 42:11 Or saving acts of

I say to God my Rock,(A)
    “Why have you forgotten(B) me?
Why must I go about mourning,(C)
    oppressed(D) by the enemy?”(E)
10 My bones suffer mortal agony(F)
    as my foes taunt(G) me,
saying to me all day long,
    “Where is your God?”(H)

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

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