Psalm 42 (Amplified Bible)

Psalm 42

BOOK TWO

To the Chief Musician. A skillful song, or a didactic or reflective poem, of the sons of Korah.

    ²My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?^(A)

    ³My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God?

    ⁴These things I [earnestly] remember and pour myself out within me: how I went slowly before the throng and led them in procession to the house of God [like a bandmaster before his band, timing the steps to the sound of music and the chant of song], with the voice of shouting and praise, a throng keeping festival.

    ⁵Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God.

    ⁶O my God, my life is cast down upon me [and I find the burden more than I can bear]; therefore will I [earnestly] remember You from the land of the Jordan [River] and the [summits of Mount] Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar.

    ⁷[Roaring] deep calls to [roaring] deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me.

    ⁸Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

    ⁹I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

    ¹⁰As with a sword [crushing] in my bones, my enemies taunt and reproach me, while they say continually to me, Where is your God?

    ¹¹Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.