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Psalm 42:3

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Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, “Where is this God of yours?”

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And perhaps the Lord will see that I am being wronged and will bless me because of these curses today.”

I eat ashes for food. My tears run down into my drink

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

I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Interlude

“Is this the one who relies on the Lord? Then let the Lord save him! If the Lord loves him so much, let the Lord rescue him!”

So many are saying, “God will never rescue him!” Interlude

Their taunts break my bones. They scoff, “Where is this God of yours?”

I have seen you in your sanctuary and gazed upon your power and glory.

Why should pagan nations be allowed to scoff, asking, “Where is their God?” Show us your vengeance against the nations, for they have spilled the blood of your servants.

O Lord, pay back our neighbors seven times for the scorn they have hurled at you.

You have fed us with sorrow and made us drink tears by the bucketful.

Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young at a place near your altar, O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, my King and my God!

At these three times each year, every man in Israel must appear before the Sovereign, the Lord.

Let the priests, who minister in the Lord’s presence, stand and weep between the entry room to the Temple and the altar. Let them pray, “Spare your people, Lord! Don’t let your special possession become an object of mockery. Don’t let them become a joke for unbelieving foreigners who say, ‘Has the God of Israel left them?’”

Then my enemies will see that the Lord is on my side. They will be ashamed that they taunted me, saying, “So where is the Lord— that God of yours?” With my own eyes I will see their downfall; they will be trampled like mud in the streets.

Can any living thing hear the voice of the living God from the heart of the fire as we did and yet survive?




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