Book Two Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul? To the

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Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil[a] of the Sons of Korah.

42 As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.

2
My soul thirsts for God,
for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?

3
My tears have been my food
day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”

4
These things I remember,
as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
a multitude keeping festival.

5
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation[c] 6 and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.

7
Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
have gone over me.

8
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
and at night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.

9
I say to God, my rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10
As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”

11
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.

Footnotes:
a.Psalm 42:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
b.Psalm 42:2 Revocalization yields and see the face of God
c.Psalm 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5

 

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I prayed for this. In Jesus Name. Amen

 

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Amen!!

 

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