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Psalm 42:3

Good News Translation

Day and night I cry, and tears are my only food; all the time my enemies ask me, “Where is your God?”

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Perhaps the Lord will notice my misery and give me some blessings to take the place of his curse.”

Because of your anger and fury, ashes are my food, and my tears are mixed with my drink. You picked me up and threw me away.

Why should the nations ask us, “Where is your God?”

I lift up my hands to you in prayer; like dry ground my soul is thirsty for you.

“You relied on the Lord,” they say. “Why doesn't he save you? If the Lord likes you, why doesn't he help you?”

They talk about me and say, “God will not help him.”

I am crushed by their insults, as they keep on asking me, “Where is your God?”

Let me see you in the sanctuary; let me see how mighty and glorious you are.

Why should the nations ask us, “Where is your God?” Let us see you punish the nations for shedding the blood of your servants.

Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.

You have given us sorrow to eat, a large cup of tears to drink.

Even the sparrows have built a nest, and the swallows have their own home; they keep their young near your altars, Lord Almighty, my king and my God.

Every year at these three festivals all your men must come to worship me, the Lord your God.

The priests, serving the Lord between the altar and the entrance of the Temple, must weep and pray: “Have pity on your people, Lord. Do not let other nations despise us and mock us by saying, ‘Where is your God?’”

Then our enemies will see this and be disgraced—the same enemies who taunted us by asking, “Where is the Lord your God?” We will see them defeated, trampled down like mud in the streets.

Has any human being ever lived after hearing the living God speak from a fire?




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