Saturday, 16 May 2009

• Psalm 42

  Psalm 42
  

  ^{1    [b]} As the deer pants for streams of water,
         so my soul pants for you, O God.

   ² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
         When can I go and meet with God?

   ³ My tears have been my food
         day and night,
         while men say to me all day long,
         "Where is your God?"

   ⁴ These things I remember
         as I pour out my soul:
         how I used to go with the multitude,
         leading the procession to the house of God,
         with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
         among the festive throng.

   ⁵ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
         Why so disturbed within me?
         Put your hope in God,
         for I will yet praise him,
         my Savior and ⁶ my God.
         My ^[c] soul is downcast within me;
         therefore I will remember you
         from the land of the Jordan,
         the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.

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

   ⁸ By day the LORD directs his love,
         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 must I go about mourning,
         oppressed by the enemy?"

   ¹⁰ My bones suffer mortal agony
         as my foes taunt me,
         saying to me all day long,
         "Where is your God?"

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

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