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As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>My soul thirsted for God, for the living God: when shall I come and see the face of God?<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>My tears were to me bread day and night, in saying to me all the days, Where is thy God?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>These I shall remember, and I shall pour out my soul in me: for I shall pass through into the booth, I shall go softly with them even to the house of God, with the voice of joy and confession, of the multitude keeping a festival.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>O my God, my soul will be bowed down upon me: for this I will remember from the land of Jordan and the Hermonites, from the mountain of smallness.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Deep calling to deep at the voice of thy cataracts: all thy breakers and thy waves passed over me.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The day Jehovah will command his mercy, and in the night the song with me; the prayer to the God of my life.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I will say to God my rock, Wherefore didst thou forget me? wherefore darkened shall I go for the oppression of the enemy?<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>With a breaking of my bones mine enemies reproached me, in their saying all the day, Where their God?<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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