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A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext3">For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants for You, O God.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext4">To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext5"> For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext3">My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext4">My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext5">I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God? </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext3">My tears have been my food day and night, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext4">My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where <i>is</i> thy God?</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext5">My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me," Where is your God?" </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext3">These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext4">When I remember these <i>things</i>, 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.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext5">I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him For the help of His presence.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and <i>why</i> art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him <i>for</i> the help of his countenance.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon--from Mount Mizar.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext3">O my God, my soul is in despair within me; Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext4">O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext5">I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls; All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me-- a prayer to the God of my life.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext3">The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext4"><i>Yet</i> the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song <i>shall be</i> with me, <i>and</i> my prayer unto the God of my life.</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext5">The LORD will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night-- a prayer to the God of my life. </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?"</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext3">I will say to God my rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext4">I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext5">I will say to God, my rock," Why have You forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression?" </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/42.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext3">As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext4"><i>As</i> with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where <i>is</i> thy God?</span></td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext5">My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me," Where is your God?" </span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext3">Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext4">Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, <i>who is</i> the health of my countenance, and my God.</span></td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext5">Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God. </span></td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><br /><br /><br />THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>.<br /><br />ESV® Text Edition® (2016): The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv" target="_top">Crossway Bibles</a>.<br /><br />New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960 - 1995 by <a href="http://www.lockman.org" target="_top">The Lockman Foundation</a>.<br /><br />Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by <a href="http://www.bhpublishinggroup.com/" target="_top">Holman Bible Publishers</a>.<br /><br />King James Bible Text courtesy of <a href="http://www.bibleprotector.com/"> BibleProtector.com</a><br /><br />Section Headings Courtesy <a href="http://intbible.com/">INT Bible</a> © 2012, Used by Permission.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/41.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 41"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 41" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/43.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 43"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 43" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>