[Psalms 42]

42:1 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?

3 My tears have been my foodday 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 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 deepat the roar of your waterfalls;all your breakers and your waveshave 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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