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As the deer longs for streams of water,(A)
    so my soul longs for you, O God.

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My soul thirsts for God, the living God.
    When can I enter and see the face of God?[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 42:3 See the face of God: “face” designates a personal presence (Gn 33:10; Ex 10:28–29; 2 Sm 17:11). The expressions “see God/God’s face” occur elsewhere (Ps 11:7; 17:15; cf. Ex 24:10; 33:7–11; Jb 33:26) for the presence of God in the Temple.

Those times I recall
    as I pour out my soul,(A)
When I would cross over to the shrine of the Mighty One,[a]
    to the house of God,
Amid loud cries of thanksgiving,
    with the multitude keeping festival.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 42:5 The shrine of the Mighty One: this reading follows the tradition of the Septuagint and the Vulgate.