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Psalm 42 (ESV)

¹ As a deer pants for flowing streams,

    so pants my soul for you, O God.

² My soul thirsts for God,

    for the living God.

When shall I come and appear before God?

³ My tears have been my food

    day and night,

while they say to me all the day long,

    “Where is your God?”

⁴ These things I remember,

    as I pour out my soul:

how I would go with the throng

    and lead them in procession to the house of God

with glad shouts and songs of praise,

    a multitude keeping festival.

⁵ Why are you cast down, O my soul,

    and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

    my salvation ⁶ and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;

    therefore I remember you

from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,

    from Mount Mizar.

⁷ Deep calls to deep

    at the roar of your waterfalls;

all your breakers and your waves

    have gone over me.

⁸ By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,

    and at night his song is with me,

    a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I say to God, my rock:

    “Why have you forgotten me?

Why do I go mourning

    because of the oppression of the enemy?”

¹⁰ As with a deadly wound in my bones,

    my adversaries taunt me,

while they say to me all the day long,

    “Where is your God?”

¹¹ Why are you cast down, O my soul,

    and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

    my salvation and my God.

[What truths about God’s person, activity or character does the text reveal?]

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