Psalm 42-44

New King James Version

⁴ When I remember these things,
^(E)I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
^(F)I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

^5 (G)Why are you ^[d]cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
^(H)Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
^[e]For the help of His countenance.

^6 [f]O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From ^[g]the Hill Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
^(I)All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
⁸ The Lord will ^(J)command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And ^(K)in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I will say to God my Rock,
^(L)“Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰ As with a ^[h]breaking of my bones,
My enemies ^[i]reproach me,
^(M)While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”

^11 (N)Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The ^[j]help of my countenance and my God.

^3 (R)Oh, send out Your light and Your truth!
Let them lead me;
Let them bring me to ^(S)Your holy hill
And to Your ^[k]tabernacle.
⁴ Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And on the harp I will praise You,
O God, my God.

^5 (T)Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The ^[l]help of my countenance and my God.

^4 (Z)You are my King, ^[o]O God;
^[p]Command victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through You ^(AA)we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
⁶ For ^(AB)I will not trust in my bow,
Nor shall my sword save me.
⁷ But You have saved us from our enemies,
And have put to shame those who hated us.
^8 (AC)In God we boast all day long,
And praise Your name forever. Selah

⁹ But ^(AD)You have cast us off and put us to shame,
And You do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You make us ^(AE)turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken ^[q]spoil for themselves.
^11 (AF)You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
And have ^(AG)scattered us among the nations.
^12 (AH)You sell Your people for next to nothing,
And are not enriched by selling them.

^13 (AI)You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
^14 (AJ)You make us a byword among the nations,
^(AK)A shaking of the head among the peoples.
¹⁵ My dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my face has covered me,
¹⁶ Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
^(AL)Because of the enemy and the avenger.

^17 (AM)All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back,
^(AN)Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
¹⁹ But You have severely broken us in ^(AO)the place of jackals,
And covered us ^(AP)with the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or ^(AQ)stretched^[r] out our hands to a foreign god,
^21 (AR)Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
^22 (AS)Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

^23 (AT)Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
^24 (AU)Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For ^(AV)our soul is bowed down to the ^[s]dust;
Our body clings to the ground.
²⁶ Arise for our help,
And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.