Psalms 42 — ULB

For the chief musician. A maschil of the sons of Korah.

42Verse 1As the deer pants after streams of water,
so I thirst for you, God.
^{Verse 2}I thirst for God, for the living God,
when will I come and appear before God?
^{Verse 3}My tears have been my food day and night,
while my enemies are always saying to me, “Where is your God?”
^{Verse 4}These things I call to mind as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng and led them to the house of God
with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude celebrating a festival.
^{Verse 5}Why are you bowed down, my soul?
Why are you upset within me?
Hope in God, for again I will praise him who is my salvation.
^{Verse 6}My God, my soul is bowed down within me,
therefore I call you to mind from the land of the Jordan,
from the three peaks of Mount Hermon, and from the hill of Mizar.
^{Verse 7}Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls;
all your waves and your billows have gone over me.
^{Verse 8}Yet Yahweh will command his covenant faithfulness in the daytime;
in the night his song will be with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
^{Verse 9}I will say to God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
^{Verse 10}As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries rebuke me,
while they always say to me, “Where is your God?”
^{Verse 11}Why are you bowed down, my soul?
Why are you upset within me?
Hope in God, for again I will praise him who is my salvation and my God.