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?”
⁴These 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] ⁶and 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.
⁷Deep calls to deep
    at the roar of your waterfalls;
^(M)all your breakers and your ^(N)waves
    have gone over me.
⁸By 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.
⁹I say to God, ^(Q)my rock:
    “Why have you forgotten me?
^(R)Why do I go mourning
    because of the oppression of the enemy?”