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A <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>Contemplation of the sons of Korah.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Ps-42-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>As the deer <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>pants for the water brooks,</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-1">So pants my soul for You, O God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-2">When shall I come and <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>appear before God?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>My tears have been my food day and night,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-3">While they continually say to me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-3">“Where <i>is</i> your God?”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>When I remember these <i>things,</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-4">I pour out my soul within me.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-4">For I used to go with the multitude;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-4">I went with them to the house of God,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-4">With the voice of joy and praise,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-4">With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Why are you <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>cast down, O my soul?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-5">And <i>why</i> are you disquieted within me?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-5">Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-5"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span><i>For</i> the help of His countenance.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>O my God, my soul is cast down within me;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-6">Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-6">And from the heights of Hermon,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-6">From <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>the Hill Mizar.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-7">All Your waves and billows have gone over me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-8">And in the night His song <i>shall be</i> with me—</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-8">A prayer to the God of my life.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will say to God my Rock,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-9">“Why have You forgotten me?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-9">Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><i>As</i> with a <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>breaking of my bones,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-10">My enemies <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>reproach me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-10">While they say to me all day long,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-10">“Where <i>is</i> your God?”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Why are you cast down, O my soul?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-11">And why are you disquieted within me?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-11">Hope in God;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-11">For I shall yet praise Him,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-42-11">The <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span>help of my countenance and my God.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-14557a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:1">Psalm 42:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Maschil</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14557b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:1">Psalm 42:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>longs for</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14558c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:2">Psalm 42:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Vg.; some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Tg. <i>I see the face of God</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14561d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:5">Psalm 42:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>bowed down</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14561e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:5">Psalm 42:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg.; a few Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. <i>The help of my countenance, my God</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14562f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:6">Psalm 42:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg.; a few Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Vg. put <i>my God</i> at the end of v. <span class="bibleref" data-bibleref="Ps.42.5" href="/passage/?search=Ps.42.5&version=NKJV">5</span></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14562g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:6">Psalm 42:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Mount</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14566h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:10">Psalm 42:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>shattering</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14566i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:10">Psalm 42:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>revile</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14567j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 42:11">Psalm 42:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>salvation</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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