Psalm 42:2 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

My soul for God, the living God, doth thirst: when shall I near Unto thy countenance approach, and in God's sight appear?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? [John 7:37; I Thess. 1:9, 10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?

Common English Bible

My whole being thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see God’s face?

Catholic Public Domain Version

For you are God, my strength. Why have you rejected me? And why do I walk in sadness, while the adversary afflicts me?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For thou art God my strength: why hast thou cast me off? and why do I go sorrowful whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

Psalm 42:2 Cross References

Psalm 27:4

One thing I of the Lord desir'd, and will seek to obtain, That all days of my life I may within God's house remain; That I the beauty of the Lord behold may and admire, And that I in his holy place may rev'rently enquire.

Psalm 43:4

Then will I to God's altar go, to God my chiefest joy: Yea, God, my God, thy name to praise my harp I will employ.

Psalm 63:1

Lord, thee my God, I'll early seek: my soul doth thirst for thee; My flesh longs in a dry parch'd land, wherein no waters be:

Psalm 63:3

Since better is thy love than life, my lips thee praise shall give.

Psalm 84:10

For in thy courts one day excels a thousand; rather in My God's house will I keep a door, than dwell in tents of sin.

Psalm 84:2

My thirsty soul longs veh'mently, yea faints, thy courts to see: My very heart and flesh cry out, O living God, for thee.

Psalm 84:4

Bless'd are they in thy house that dwell, they ever give thee praise.

Psalm 84:7

So they from strength unwearied go still forward unto strength, Until in Sion they appear before the Lord at length.