Psalm 42 - Evangelical Heritage Version - 2021（EHV）

BOOK II: PSALMS 42-72Psalms 42 & 43An Exile's Prayer: Why Are You Cast Down?For the choir director. A maskil

by the Sons of Korah.Longing for the Temple

1As a doe pants for streams of water,

so my soul pants for you, O God.

2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When can I go and appear before God?

3My tears have been food for me day and night,

while people are saying to me all day,

“Where is your God?”

4I am overcome by my emotions

whenever I remember these things:

how I used to arrive with the crowd,

as I led the procession to the house of God,

with loud shouts of thanksgiving,

with the crowd celebrating the festival.

Refrain

5Why are you so depressed, O my soul?

Why so disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I will again praise him

for salvation from his presence.Remembrance of the Lord

6My God, my soul is depressed within me.

Therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan,

from the heights of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

7Deep calls to deep in the roar of your rapids.

All your breakers and your waves have swept over me.

8By day the Lord commands his mercy,

and at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life.

9I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I go around mourning because of oppression by the enemy?”

10It is like breaking my bones when my foes taunt me.

All day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

Refrain

11Why are you so depressed, O my soul?

Why so disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I will again praise him

for my salvation from the face of my God.