Psalm 42 Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

BOOK II

(Psalms 42–72)

Longing for God

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

42 As a deer longs for flowing streams,
so I long for you, God.^(A)
²I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I come and appear before God?^(B)
³My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
‘Where is your God? ’^(C)
⁴I remember this as I pour out my heart:^(D)
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.^(E)

⁵Why, my soul, are you so dejected?
Why are you in such turmoil?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,
my Saviour and my God.^(F)
⁶I^[a] am deeply depressed;
therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan
and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.^(G)
⁷Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.^(H)
⁸The Lord will send his faithful love by day;^(I)
his song will be with me in the night –
a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I will say to God, my rock,^(J)
‘Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression? ’^(K)
¹⁰My adversaries taunt me,
as if crushing my bones,
while all day long they say to me,
‘Where is your God? ’^(L)
¹¹Why, my soul, are you so dejected?
Why are you in such turmoil?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him,
my Saviour and my God.^(M)

Footnotes

42:5–6 Some Hb mss, LXX, Syr; other Hb mss read him, the salvation of his presence. ⁶My God, I

Cross references

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised (CSBA)