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Psalm 42:5-11
Amplified Bible
Psalm 42:5-11
Amplified Bible
5
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become restless and disturbed within me?
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.
6
O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];
Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7
Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
8
Yet the Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song will be with me,
A prayer to the God of my life.
9
I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10
As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”
11
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
Why have you become restless and disquieted within me?
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him,
The [a]help of my countenance and my God.
Footnotes
- Psalm 42:11 Or saving acts of.
Psalm 42:5-11
New International Version
Psalm 42:5-11
New International Version
5 Why, my soul, are you downcast?(A)
Why so disturbed(B) within me?
Put your hope in God,(C)
for I will yet praise(D) him,
my Savior(E) and my God.(F)
6 My soul is downcast within me;
therefore I will remember(G) you
from the land of the Jordan,(H)
the heights of Hermon(I)—from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep(J)
in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers
have swept over me.(K)
8 By day the Lord directs his love,(L)
at night(M) his song(N) is with me—
a prayer to the God of my life.(O)
9 I say to God my Rock,(P)
“Why have you forgotten(Q) me?
Why must I go about mourning,(R)
oppressed(S) by the enemy?”(T)
10 My bones suffer mortal agony(U)
as my foes taunt(V) me,
saying to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”(W)
11 Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God.(X)
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