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Psalms 42

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Psalms 42 Bible text

WEB: 1WEB

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

ASV: 1ASV

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, So panteth my soul after thee, O God.

WEB: 2WEB

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

ASV: 2ASV

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?

WEB: 3WEB

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

ASV: 3ASV

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

WEB: 4WEB

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

ASV: 4ASV

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

WEB: 5WEB

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

ASV: 5ASV

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him For the help of his countenance.

WEB: 6WEB

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

ASV: 6ASV

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

WEB: 7WEB

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

ASV: 7ASV

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls: All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

WEB: 8WEB

The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

ASV: 8ASV

Yet Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, Even a prayer unto the God of my life.

WEB: 9WEB

I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

ASV: 9ASV

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

WEB: 10WEB

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

ASV: 10ASV

As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

WEB: 11WEB

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

ASV: 11ASV

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.