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# Psalms 42

[1](#verse-1) As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

[2](#verse-2) My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

[3](#verse-3) My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

[4](#verse-4) These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

[5](#verse-5) Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

[6](#verse-6) My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

[7](#verse-7) Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

[8](#verse-8) The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

[9](#verse-9) I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

[10](#verse-10) As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

[11](#verse-11) Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

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