BOOK II
(Psalms 42–72)

Psalm 42

Longing for God

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.

As a deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for You, God.(A)
I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I come and appear before God?(B)

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Psalm 63

Praise God Who Satisfies

A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.(A)

God, You are my God; I eagerly seek You.
I thirst for You;
my body faints for You
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.(B)

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I spread out my hands to You;
I am like parched land before You.(A)Selah

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17 The poor and the needy seek water, but there is none;
their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, Yahweh, will answer them;(A)
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

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For I will pour water on the thirsty land
and streams on the dry ground;
I will pour out My Spirit(A) on your descendants
and My blessing on your offspring.

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14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever!(A) In fact, the water I will give him will become a well[a](B) of water springing up within him for eternal life.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. John 4:14 Or spring

The Promise of the Spirit

37 On the last and most important day of the festival,(A) Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me[a](B) and drink!(C)

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:37 Other mss omit to Me

And He said to me, “It is done!(A) I am the Alpha and the Omega,(B) the Beginning and the End.(C) I will give water as a gift to the thirsty(D) from the spring of life.(E)

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