Psalm 42, NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION
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1

As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.
 

2

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.  When shall I come and behold the face of God?
 

3

My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
 

4

These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
 

5

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me?  Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help
 

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 thunder of your cataracts; all your waves and your billows 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 must I walk about mournfully because the enemy oppresses me?”
 

10

As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
 

11

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me?  Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.