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Monday, April 29th, 2024
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Psalms 42

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Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

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

1 (b)As a deer pants for flowing streams,
    so pants my soul for you, O God.
2 (c)My soul thirsts for God,
    for (d)the living God.
When shall I come and (e)appear before God?[b]
3 (f)My tears have been my food
    day and night,
(g)while they say to me all the day long,
    "Where is your God?"
4 These things I remember,
    as I (h)pour out my soul:
(i)how I would go (j)with the throng
    and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
    (k)a multitude keeping festival.

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

My soul is cast down within me;
    therefore I (o)remember you
(p)from the land of Jordan and of (q)Hermon,
    from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep
    at the roar of your waterfalls;
(r)all your breakers and your (s)waves
    have gone over me.
8 By day the Lord (t)commands his steadfast love,
    and at (u)night his song is with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God, (v)my rock:
    "Why have you forgotten me?
(w)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,
(x)while they say to me all the day long,
    "Where is your God?"

11 (y)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.

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