Psalm 42_1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Longing for God

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

¹ As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God.

² I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God?

³ My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me, ‘Where is your God? ’

⁴ I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.

⁵ Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Saviour and my God.

⁶ I  am deeply depressed; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

⁷ Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your billows have swept over me.

⁸ The Lord will send his faithful love by day; his song will be with me in the night – a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I will say to God, my rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression? ’

¹⁰ My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me, ‘Where is your God? ’

¹¹ Why, my soul, are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Saviour and my God.