Psalms 42

Longing for God

For the choir director. A •Maskil of the sons of Korah.

¹As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, God.

²I thirst for God, the living God. When can I come and appear before God?

³My tears have been my food day and night, while all day long people say to me, "Where is your God? "

⁴I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.

⁵Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God.

⁶I am deeply depressed; therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

⁷Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.

⁸The Lord will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night — a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I will say to God, my rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why must I go about in sorrow because of the enemy's oppression? "

¹⁰My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me, "Where is your God? "

¹¹Why am I so depressed? Why this turmoil within me? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him, my Savior and my God.