(A)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you (B)in turmoil within me?
(C)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation[a] and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
    therefore I (D)remember you
(E)from the land of Jordan and of (F)Hermon,
    from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep
    at the roar of your waterfalls;
(G)all your breakers and your (H)waves
    have gone over me.
By day the Lord (I)commands his steadfast love,
    and at (J)night his song is with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, (K)my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
(L)Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
    my adversaries taunt me,
(M)while they say to me all the day long,
    “Where is your God?”

11 (N)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
    my salvation and my God.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5

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