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Psalms 42

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1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

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

3My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? Andwhy art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him Forthe help of his countenance.

6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

8Yet Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, Evena prayer unto the God of my life.

9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

10As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who isthe help of my countenance, and my God.

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Parallel translations · Psalms 42:1

WEB · World English Bible (2000)

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

KJV · King James Version (1611)

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

ASV · American Standard Version (1901)

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

BBE · Bible in Basic English (1949)

Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.

YLT · Young's Literal Translation (1862)

To the Overseer. --An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.

DRA · Douay-Rheims (Challoner) (1752)

A psalm for David. Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.

DBY · Darby Bible (1890)

As the hart panteth after the water-brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, OGod.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — verses that illuminate Psalms 42:1.

  • Psalms 49:1

    Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,

  • Psalms 63:1

    O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.

  • Psalms 48:1

    Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy mountain.

  • Numbers 16:32

    and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

  • Psalms 84:1

    How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts!

  • Isaiah 26:8

    Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial name, is the desire of our soul.

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"Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man."