Psalm 42

Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses
 To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah.

¹ As the deer pants for the water brooks,
 So pants my soul for You, O God.
² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
 When shall I come and appear before God?
³ My tears have been my food day and night,
 While they continually say to me,
 “Where is your God?”
⁴ When I remember these things,
 I pour out my soul within me.
 For I used to go with the multitude;
 I went with them to the house of God,
 With the voice of joy and praise,
 With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.
⁵ Why are you cast down, O my soul?
 And why are you disquieted within me?
 Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
 For the help of His countenance.
⁶ O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
 Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
 And from the heights of Hermon,
 From the Hill Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
 All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
⁸ The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
 And in the night His song shall be with me—
 A prayer to the God of my life.
⁹ I will say to God my Rock,
 “Why have You forgotten me?
 Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰ As with a breaking of my bones,
 My enemies reproach me,
 While they say to me all day long,
 “Where is your God?”
¹¹ Why are you cast down, O my soul?
 And why are you disquieted within me?
 Hope in God;
 For I shall yet praise Him,
 The help of my countenance and my God.