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Psalm 42
New International Version

### BOOK II

#### Psalms 42–72

### Psalm 42[a][b]

#### For the director of music. A maskil[c] of the Sons of Korah.

1 As the deer(A) pants for streams of water,(B)
so my soul pants(C) for you, my God.
2 My soul thirsts(D) for God, for the living God.(E)
When can I go(F) and meet with God?
3 My tears(G) have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”(H)
4 These things I remember
as I pour out my soul:(I)
how I used to go to the house of God(J)
under the protection of the Mighty One[d]
with shouts of joy(K) and praise(L)
among the festive throng.(M)

5 Why, my soul, are you downcast?(N)
Why so disturbed(O) within me?
Put your hope in God,(P)
for I will yet praise(Q) him,
my Savior(R) and my God.(S)

6 My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember(T) you
from the land of the Jordan,(U)
the heights of Hermon(V)—from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep(W)
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.(X)

8 By day the Lord directs his love,(Y)
at night(Z) his song(AA) is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.(AB)

9 I say to God my Rock,(AC)
“Why have you forgotten(AD) me?
Why must I go about mourning,(AE)
oppressed(AF) by the enemy?”(AG)
10 My bones suffer mortal agony(AH)
as my foes taunt(AI) me,
saying to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”(AJ)

11 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.(AK)

#### Footnotes

1. Psalm 42:1 In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.
2. Psalm 42:1 In Hebrew texts 42:1-11 is numbered 42:2-12.
3. Psalm 42:1 Title: Probably a literary or musical term
4. Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

#### Cross references

1. Psalm 42:1 : S Ps 18:33
2. Psalm 42:1 : S Dt 10:7
3. Psalm 42:1 : S Job 19:27; Ps 119:131; Joel 1:20
4. Psalm 42:2 : Ps 63:1; 143:6
5. Psalm 42:2 : S Jos 3:10; S 1Sa 14:39; S Mt 16:16; Ro 9:26
6. Psalm 42:2 : Ps 43:4; 84:7
7. Psalm 42:3 : S Job 3:24
8. Psalm 42:3 : ver 10; Ps 79:10; 115:2; Joel 2:17; Mic 7:10
9. Psalm 42:4 : S 1Sa 1:15
10. Psalm 42:4 : Ps 55:14; 122:1; Isa 2:2; 30:29
11. Psalm 42:4 : S Ezr 3:13
12. Psalm 42:4 : S Jos 6:5; Ps 95:2; 100:4; 147:7; Jnh 2:9
13. Psalm 42:4 : Ps 35:18; 109:30
14. Psalm 42:5 : Ps 38:6; 77:3; La 3:20; Mt 26:38
15. Psalm 42:5 : S Job 20:2
16. Psalm 42:5 : S Ps 25:5; S 71:14
17. Psalm 42:5 : Ps 9:1
18. Psalm 42:5 : Ps 18:46
19. Psalm 42:5 : ver 11; Ps 43:5
20. Psalm 42:6 : Ps 63:6; 77:11
21. Psalm 42:6 : Ge 13:10; S Nu 13:29
22. Psalm 42:6 : S Dt 3:8; S 4:48
23. Psalm 42:7 : S Ge 1:2; S 7:11
24. Psalm 42:7 : Ps 69:2; Jnh 2:3
25. Psalm 42:8 : Ps 57:3
26. Psalm 42:8 : S Ps 16:7
27. Psalm 42:8 : Ps 77:6
28. Psalm 42:8 : Ps 133:3; Ecc 5:18; 8:15
29. Psalm 42:9 : Ps 18:31
30. Psalm 42:9 : S Ps 10:11
31. Psalm 42:9 : S Ps 35:14
32. Psalm 42:9 : Job 20:19; Ps 43:2; 106:42
33. Psalm 42:9 : Ps 9:13; 43:2
34. Psalm 42:10 : S Ps 6:2
35. Psalm 42:10 : Dt 32:27; Ps 44:16; 89:51; 102:8; 119:42
36. Psalm 42:10 : S ver 3
37. Psalm 42:11 : ver 5; Ps 43:5

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