20 (A)My soul [a]breaks with longing
For Your judgments at all times.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:20 is crushed

(A)My soul longs, yes, even faints
For the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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Joy in the Fellowship of God

A Psalm of David (A)when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

63 O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
(B)My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.

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131 I opened my mouth and (A)panted,
For I longed for Your commandments.

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BOOK TWO

Psalms 42–72

Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses

To the Chief Musician. A [a]Contemplation of the sons of Korah.

42 As the deer [b]pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul for You, O God.
(A)My soul thirsts for God, for the (B)living God.
When shall I come and [c]appear before God?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:1 Heb. Maschil
  2. Psalm 42:1 Lit. longs for
  3. Psalm 42:2 So with MT, Vg.; some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr., Tg. I see the face of God

15 (A)“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither [a]cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

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  1. Revelation 3:16 NU, M hot nor cold

174 (A)I long for Your salvation, O Lord,
And (B)Your law is my delight.

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40 Behold, I long for Your precepts;
Revive me in Your righteousness.

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11 (A)My foot has held fast to His steps;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
12 I have not departed from the (B)commandment of His lips;
(C)I have treasured the words of His mouth
More than my [a]necessary food.

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  1. Job 23:12 Lit. appointed portion

17 (A)A friend loves at all times,
And a brother is born for adversity.

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12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
But (A)when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

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Blessed are those who keep justice,
And [a]he who (A)does righteousness at (B)all times!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 106:3 LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. those who do

10 (A)Will he delight himself in the Almighty?
Will he always call on God?

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