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Psalm 42:3

New International Reader's Version

My tears have been my food day and night. All day long people say to me, “Where is your God?”

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Maybe the Lord will see how much I’m suffering. Maybe he’ll bring back to me his covenant blessing instead of his curse I’m hearing today.”

I eat ashes as my food. My tears fall into what I’m drinking.

Why do the nations ask, “Where is their God?”

I spread out my hands to you in prayer. I’m thirsty for you, just as dry ground is thirsty for rain.

They say, “He trusts in the Lord. Let the Lord help him. If the Lord is pleased with him, let him save him.”

Many are saying about me, “God will not save him.”

My body suffers deadly pain as my enemies make fun of me. All day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”

I have seen you in the sacred tent. There I have seen your power and your glory.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Show the nations that you punish those who kill your people. We want to see it happen.

Lord, our neighbors have laughed at you. Pay them back seven times for what they have done.

You have given us tears as our food. You have made us drink tears by the bowlful.

Lord who rules over all, even the sparrow has found a home near your altar. My King and my God, the swallow also has a nest there, where she may have her young.

“Three times a year all your men must come to worship me. I am your Lord and King.

Let the priests who serve the Lord weep. Let them cry between the temple porch and the altar. Let them say, “Lord, spare your people. Don’t let others make fun of them. Don’t let the nations laugh at them. Don’t let them tease your people and say, ‘Where is their God?’ ”

Our enemies will see it too. And they will be put to shame. After all, they said to us, ‘Where is the Lord your God?’ But we will see them destroyed. Soon they will be stomped on like mud in the streets.”

We have heard the voice of the living God. We’ve heard him speaking out of the fire. Has any other human being ever heard him speak like that and stayed alive?




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