I remember these things and (A)pour out my soul within me.
For I (B)used to go over with the multitude and walk them to the house of God,
With a voice of (C)joy and thanksgiving, a multitude celebrating a festival.

(D)Why are you [a](E)in despair, my soul?
And why are you (F)restless within me?
(G)Wait for God, for I will [b]again praise [c]Him
For the [d](H)help of His [e]presence, my God.
My soul is [f]in despair within me;
Therefore I (I)remember You from (J)the land of the Jordan
And the [g]peaks of (K)Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:5 Lit dissolved away
  2. Psalm 42:5 Or still
  3. Psalm 42:5 Some ancient versions Him, the help of my face and my God
  4. Psalm 42:5 Or saving acts of
  5. Psalm 42:5 Or presence. O my God, my soul...
  6. Psalm 42:6 Or dissolved away
  7. Psalm 42:6 Lit Hermons

These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:(A)
how I used to go to the house of God(B)
    under the protection of the Mighty One[a]
with shouts of joy(C) and praise(D)
    among the festive throng.(E)

Why, my soul, are you downcast?(F)
    Why so disturbed(G) within me?
Put your hope in God,(H)
    for I will yet praise(I) him,
    my Savior(J) and my God.(K)

My soul is downcast within me;
    therefore I will remember(L) you
from the land of the Jordan,(M)
    the heights of Hermon(N)—from Mount Mizar.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.