# Psalm 42 [[Ps-41|← Psalm 41]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-43|Psalm 43 →]] *** ###### v1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. ###### v2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? ###### v3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" ###### v4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God's house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day. ###### v5 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. ###### v6 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar. ###### v7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. ###### v8 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. ###### v9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" ###### v10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" ###### v11 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God. *** [[Ps-41|← Psalm 41]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-43|Psalm 43 →]]