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    Psalms · 11 verses

    Psalms 42

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    The soul is questioned, instructed, and questioned again: a small private interrogation conducted in the middle of tears, enemies, waterfalls, and an unexplained mountain.

    A thirst remembered in processionvv. 1–5

    The singer begins with a deer panting for water, but the thirst belongs to the soul, which longs for the living God and asks when it may appear in God’s presence. Tears have become food, day and night, while men ask where that God is. Against this, memory supplies a festive procession to the house of God, and the soul is told to hope—though it is plainly still downcast.

    The mountain with no introductionvv. 6–8

    The soul despairs, and the singer remembers God from the land of Jordan, the peaks of Hermon, and, with a curious final precision, Mount Mizar. Then the landscape turns aquatic and immense: deep calls to deep, waterfalls roar, and breakers and waves roll over the singer. By day the LORD decrees loving devotion; by night, a song remains as prayer to the God of life.

    The question returnsvv. 9–11

    The singer calls God his Rock and asks why he has been forgotten, while enemies press him with sorrow and taunts sharp enough to feel like crushed bones. Their question is the same one heard earlier: “Where is your God?” The soul is summoned once more to hope and praise, with no narrated improvement between the two summonses—only the repeated insistence that praise will yet come.

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    1. Ps 42:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

    2. Ps 42:2My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

    3. Ps 42:3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

    4. Ps 42:4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

    5. Ps 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

    6. Ps 42:6O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.

    7. Ps 42:7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

    8. Ps 42:8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

    9. Ps 42:9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

    10. Ps 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

    11. Ps 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

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    Where this is echoed

    Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 155 passages were voted onto 11 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.

    • 1Psalms 63:1–2A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
    • 5Psalms 37:7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
    • 1Psalms 143:6–7I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
    • 1Psalms 119:131I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.
    • 1Isaiah 26:8–9Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
    • 1Psalms 84:1–2For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O LORD of Hosts!
    • 5Hebrews 10:36–37You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
    • 5Psalms 61:2From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
    • 5Matthew 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
    • 11Psalms 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
    • 1Psalms 48:1A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.
    • 5Lamentations 3:24–26“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
    • 5Psalms 56:3When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.
    • 1Psalms 46:1For the choirmaster. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
    • 11Jeremiah 30:17But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the LORD, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”
    • 11Jeremiah 33:6Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

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