Psalm 42:3-9
English Standard Version
3 (A)My tears have been my food
day and night,
(B)while they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember,
as I (C)pour out my soul:
(D)how I would go (E)with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
(F)a multitude keeping festival.
5 (G)Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you (H)in turmoil within me?
(I)Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation[a] 6 and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I (J)remember you
(K)from the land of Jordan and of (L)Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
(M)all your breakers and your (N)waves
have gone over me.
8 By day the Lord (O)commands his steadfast love,
and at (P)night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God, (Q)my rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
(R)Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Footnotes
- Psalm 42:5 Hebrew the salvation of my face; also verse 11 and 43:5
Psalm 42:3-9
New International Version
3 My tears(A) have been my food
day and night,
while people say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”(B)
4 These things I remember
as I pour out my soul:(C)
how I used to go to the house of God(D)
under the protection of the Mighty One[a]
with shouts of joy(E) and praise(F)
among the festive throng.(G)
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast?(H)
Why so disturbed(I) within me?
Put your hope in God,(J)
for I will yet praise(K) him,
my Savior(L) and my God.(M)
6 My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember(N) you
from the land of the Jordan,(O)
the heights of Hermon(P)—from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep(Q)
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.(R)
Footnotes
- Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
Psalm 42:3-9
King James Version
3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8 Yet the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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