42:1 As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God.
42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?
42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God?
42:4 These things I remember 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.
42:5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and
42:6 my God. My [A few Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint and Syriac most Hebrew manuscripts: praise him for his saving help. 6 O my God, my] soul is downcast within me therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon from Mount
42:7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
42:8 By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me a prayer to the God of my life.
42:9 I say to God my Rock, Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?
42:10 My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, Where is your God?
42:11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Saviour and my God.