42:1 [For the music director. A ①Maskil of the sons of Korah.]
As the deer ②pants for the water brooks,
So my soul ③pants for You, God.
▷ ①Possibly Contemplative; or Didactic; or Skillful Psalm ②Lit longs for ③Lit longs for
42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and ①appear before God?
▷ ①Some mss see the face of God
42:3 My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
42:4 I remember these things and pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go over with the multitude and walk them to the house of God,
With a voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude celebrating a festival.
42:5 Why are you ①in despair, my soul?
And why are you restless within me?
Wait for God, for I will ②again praise ③Him
For the ④help of His ⑤presence, my God.
▷ ①Lit dissolved away ②Or still ③Some ancient versions Him, the help of my face and my God ④Or saving acts of ⑤Or presence. O my God, my soul...
42:6 My soul is ①in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the ②peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
▷ ①Or dissolved away ②Lit Hermons
42:7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have passed over me.
42:8 The LORD will send His goodness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.
42:9 I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go about mourning ①because of the oppression of the enemy?”
▷ ①Or while the enemy oppresses
42:10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
42:11 Why are you ①in despair, my soul?
And why are you restless within me?
Wait for God, for I will again praise ②Him
For the ③help of His presence, my God.
▷ ①Or dissolved away ②As in some ancient mss, cf. v 5; MT Him, the help of my face and my God ③Or saving acts of