Psalm 42

World English Bible

BOOK 2

For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.

42 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
    so my soul pants after you, God.^[a]
²My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
    When shall I come and appear before God?
³My tears have been my food day and night,
    while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
⁴These 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.
⁵Why 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.
⁶My 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.
⁷Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
    All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

⁸Yahweh^[b] 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.
⁹I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me?
    Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,
    while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”
¹¹Why 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.

Footnotes

42:1 The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
42:8 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

诗篇 42

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

卷二：诗篇42—72

流落异乡者的祷告

可拉后裔作的训诲诗，交给乐长。

42 上帝啊，我的心切慕你，
像鹿切慕溪水。
²我心里渴慕上帝，
渴慕永活的上帝，
我何时才能去朝拜祂呢？
³我不吃不喝，昼夜以泪洗面，
人们整天讥笑我：
“你的上帝在哪里？”
⁴从前我带领众人浩浩荡荡去上帝的殿，
在欢呼、感恩声中一起过节。
我回想这些事，
心中无限忧伤。
⁵我的心啊！
你为何沮丧？为何烦躁？
要仰望上帝，
因为我还要赞美祂——我的救主，我的上帝。

⁶我的上帝啊，我心中沮丧，
便在约旦河、黑门山和米萨山想起你。
⁷你的瀑布发出巨响，
回荡在深渊之间，
你的洪涛巨浪淹没我。
⁸白天耶和华将祂的慈爱浇灌我；
夜间我歌颂祂，
向赐我生命的上帝祷告。
⁹我对上帝——我的磐石说：
“你为何忘记我？
为何要我受仇敌的攻击，使我哀伤不已呢？”
¹⁰仇敌的辱骂刺骨钻心。
他们整天对我说：
“你的上帝在哪里？”
¹¹我的心啊！
你为何沮丧？为何烦躁？
要仰望上帝，
因为我还要赞美祂——我的救主，我的上帝。

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