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Psalm 42 ESV

As a deer pants for flowing streams,

  so pants my soul for you, O God.

2 My soul thirsts for God,

  for the living God.

When shall I come and appear before God?[b]

3 My tears have been my food

  day and night,

while they say to me all the day long,

  “Where is your God?”

4 These things I remember,

  as I pour out my soul:

how I would go with the throng

  and lead them in procession to the house of God

with glad shouts and songs of praise,

  a multitude keeping festival.


5 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[c] 6 and my God.


My soul is cast down within me;

  therefore I remember you

from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,

  from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep

  at the roar of your waterfalls;

all your breakers and your waves

  have gone over me.

8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,

  and 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 do I go mourning

  because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,

  my adversaries taunt me,

while they say to me all the day long,

  “Where is your God?”


11 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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