Psalm 42:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: For I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept holyday.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ These things I [earnestly] remember and pour myself out within me: how I went slowly before the throng and led them in procession to the house of God [like a bandmaster before his band, timing the steps to the sound of music and the chant of song], with the voice of shouting and praise, a throng keeping festival.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

Common English Bible

⁴ But I remember these things as I bare my soul: how I made my way to the mighty one’s abode, to God’s own house, with joyous shouts and thanksgiving songs— a huge crowd celebrating the festival!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And I will enter, up to the altar of God, to God who enlivens my youthfulness. To you, O God, my God, I will confess upon a stringed instrument.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And I will go in to the altar of God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.

Psalm 42:4 Cross References

2 Kings 18:30

Do not let Hezekiah make you rely on the Lord by saying, ‘The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

2 Kings 18:32

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil and honey, that you may live and not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’

2 Chronicles 7:10

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and in good spirits because of the goodness that the Lord had shown to David and to Solomon and to his people Israel.

Job 29:2

“O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,

Psalm 100:4

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him; bless his name.

Psalm 102:10

because of your indignation and anger, for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.

Psalm 115:2

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Psalm 122:1

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!”

Psalm 122:8

For the sake of my relatives and friends I will say, “Peace be within you.”

Psalm 55:14

with whom I kept pleasant company; we walked in the house of God with the throng.

Psalm 62:8

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah

Psalm 79:10

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes.

Psalm 80:6

You make us the scorn of our neighbors; our enemies laugh among themselves.

Isaiah 30:29

You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has grown dim; how the pure gold is changed! The sacred stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

Ezekiel 46:10

When they come in, the prince shall come in with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

Joel 2:17

Between the vestibule and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep. Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and do not make your heritage a mockery, a byword among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Nahum 1:15

Look! On the mountains the feet of one who brings good tidings, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the wicked invade you; they are utterly cut off.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus in like manner evil things, but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Rejoice before the Lord your God—you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female slaves, the Levites resident in your towns, as well as the strangers, the orphans, and the widows who are among you—at the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.

Ruth 1:21

I went away full, but the Lord has brought me back empty; why call me Naomi when the Lord has dealt harshly with me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”