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A <span class="emphasis">maskil</span> <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Title: Probably a literary or musical term">c</a></sup></span> of the Sons of Korah.</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>As the deer pants for streams of water,</p><p class="line2">so my soul pants for you, my God.</p> <p class="line1"><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.</p><p class="line2">When can I go and meet with God?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>My tears have been my food</p><p class="line2">day and night,</p><p class="line1">while people say to me all day long,</p><p class="line2">“Where is your God?”</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>These things I remember</p><p class="line2">as I pour out my soul:</p><p class="line1">how I used to go to the house of God</p><p class="line2">under the protection of the Mighty One <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.">d</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line1">with shouts of joy and praise</p><p class="line2">among the festive throng.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Why, my soul, are you downcast?</p><p class="line2">Why so disturbed within me?</p><p class="line1">Put your hope in God,</p><p class="line2">for I will yet praise him,</p><p class="line2">my Savior and my God.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>My soul is downcast within me;</p><p class="line2">therefore I will remember you</p><p class="line1">from the land of the Jordan,</p><p class="line2">the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Deep calls to deep</p><p class="line2">in the roar of your waterfalls;</p><p class="line1">all your waves and breakers</p><p class="line2">have swept over me.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>By day the <span class="name">Lord</span> directs his love,</p><p class="line2">at night his song is with me—</p><p class="line2">a prayer to the God of my life.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I say to God my Rock,</p><p class="line2">“Why have you forgotten me?</p><p class="line1">Why must I go about mourning,</p><p class="line2">oppressed by the enemy?”</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>My bones suffer mortal agony</p><p class="line2">as my foes taunt me,</p><p class="line1">saying to me all day long,</p><p class="line2">“Where is your God?”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/42-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Why, my soul, are you downcast?</p><p class="line2">Why so disturbed within me?</p><p class="line1">Put your hope in God,</p><p class="line2">for I will yet praise him,</p><p class="line2">my Savior and my God.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">In Hebrew texts 42:1-11 is numbered 42:2-12.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotebot">Title: Probably a literary or musical term</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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