Psalms

¹ –72 Psalm 42 For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.

² When can I go and meet with God?

³ day and night, while men say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

⁴ as I pour out my soul: how I used to go with the multitude, leading the procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive throng.

⁵ Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and

⁶ My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.

⁷ in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

⁸ at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”

¹⁰ as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

¹¹ Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.