PSALM 42
1
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 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.
PSALM 43
1
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my
cause against an ungodly nation; rescue
me from deceitful and wicked men.
2
You are God my stronghold. Why have
you rejected me? Why must I go about
mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
3
Send forth your light and your truth, let
them guide me; let them bring me to
your holy mountain, to the place where
you dwell.
4
Then will I go to the altar of God, to
God, my joy and my delight. I will praise
you with the harp, O God, my God.
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 my God.
