Psalm 42

Book Two

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

To the choirmaster. A Maskil*42:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term of *1 Chr. 6:33,37the Sons of Korah.

1 *[Joel 1:20]As a deer pants for flowing streams,

so pants my soul for you, O God.

2 *Ps. 63:1;John 7:37;[Isa. 41:17;55:1]; See Ps. 84:2My soul thirsts for God,

for *Ps. 84:2;Josh. 3:10;Dan. 6:26the living God.

When shall I come and *Ps. 84:7;[Ex. 23:17]appear before God?*42:2 Revocalization yields and see the face of God

3 *Ps. 80:5;102:9My tears have been my food

day and night,

*ver. 10;Ps. 79:10;115:2;Joel 2:17;Mic. 7:10while they say to me all the day long,

"Where is your God?"

4 These things I remember,

as I *Ps. 62:8;1 Sam. 1:15;Job 30:16;Lam. 2:19pour out my soul:

*[Isa. 30:29] how I would go *Ps. 55:14with the throng

and lead them in procession to the house of God

with glad shouts and songs of praise,

*[2 Sam. 6:15]a multitude keeping festival.

5 *ver. 11;Ps. 43:5;[Matt. 26:38;John 12:27] Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you *Ps. 77:3in turmoil within me?

*Lam. 3:24Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

my salvation*42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:56 and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;

therefore I *Jonah 2:7remember you

*2 Sam. 17:22,24from the land of Jordan and of *Deut. 3:9Hermon,

from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep

at the roar of your waterfalls;

*Jonah 2:3all your breakers and your *Ps. 88:7;See Ps. 32:6waves

have gone over me.

8 By day the Lord*Ps. 44:4;68:28;71:3;133:3commands his steadfast love,

and at *Job 35:10;[Ps. 4:4;16:7;63:6;77:6;119:55,62,148;149:5]night his song is with me,

a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I say to God, *See Ps. 18:2;2 Sam. 22:2my rock:

"Why have you forgotten me?

*Ps. 38:6;43:2Why do I go mourning

because of the oppression of the enemy?"

10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,

my adversaries taunt me,

*See ver. 3while they say to me all the day long,

"Where is your God?"

11 *See ver. 5Why 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.