Psalm 42

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

Book Two

To the choirmaster. A Maskil 1 of the Sons of Korah.

1
t As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
 2 u My soul thirsts for God,
for v the living God.
When shall I come and w appear before God? 2
3 x My tears have been my food
day and night,
y while they say to me all the day long,
"Where is your God?"
 4 These things I remember,
as I z pour out my soul:
a how I would go b with the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
c a multitude keeping festival.

5 d Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you e in turmoil within me?
f Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation 3

6 and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I g remember you
h from the land of Jordan and of i Hermon,
from Mount Mizar.
 7 Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
j all your breakers and your k waves
have gone over me.
 8 By day the Lord l commands his steadfast love,
and at m night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
 9 I say to God, n my rock:
"Why have you forgotten me?
o 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,
p while they say to me all the day long,
"Where is your God?"

11 q 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.

  1. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 6:33
    These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of Samuel.
    1 Chronicles 6:37
    Son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah.
  2. Cross References
    Joel 1:20
    Even the beasts of the field pant for you because the water brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 63:1
    O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
    John 7:37
    On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.
    Isaiah 41:17
    When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
    Isaiah 55:1
    Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
    Psalms 84:2
    My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 84:2
    My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
    Joshua 3:10
    And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
    Daniel 6:26
    I make a decree, that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God, enduring forever; his kingdom shall never be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 84:7
    They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.
    Exodus 23:17
    Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 80:5
    You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
    Psalms 102:9
    For I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 42:10
    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?
    Psalms 79:10
    Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
    Psalms 115:2
    Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?
    Joel 2:17
    Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep and say, "Spare your people, O Lord, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'
    Micah 7:10
    Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is the Lord your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
  8. Cross References
    Psalms 62:8
    Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
    1 Samuel 1:15
    But Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord.
    Job 30:16
    And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
    Lamentations 2:19
    "Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street."
  9. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:29
    You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
  10. Cross References
    Psalms 55:14
    We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.
  11. Cross References
    2 Samuel 6:15
    So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 42:11
    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.
    Psalms 43:5
    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 and my God.
    Matthew 26:38
    Then he said to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me.
    John 12:27
    Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
  13. Cross References
    Psalms 77:3
    When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah
  14. Cross References
    Lamentations 3:24
    "The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."
  15. Cross References
    Jonah 2:7
    When my life was fainting away, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came to you, into your holy temple.
  16. Cross References
    2 Samuel 17:22
    Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan. By daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.
    2 Samuel 17:24
    Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
  17. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 3:9
    (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir).
  18. Cross References
    Jonah 2:3
    For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me; all your waves and your billows passed over me.
  19. Cross References
    Psalms 88:7
    Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah
    Psalms 32:6
    Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
  20. Cross References
    Psalms 44:4
    You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob!
    Psalms 68:28
    Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.
    Psalms 71:3
    Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
    Psalms 133:3
    It is like the dew of Hermon, which falls on the mountains of Zion! For there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.
  21. Cross References
    Job 35:10
    But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who give...
    Psalms 4:4
    Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own he...
    Psalms 16:7
    I bless the Lord who gives me counsel; in the n...
    Psalms 63:6
    When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate o...
    Psalms 77:6
    I said, "Let me remember my song in the night; ...
    Psalms 119:55
    I remember your name in the night, O Lord, and ...
    Psalms 119:62
    At midnight I rise to praise you, because of yo...
    Psalms 119:148
    My eyes are awake before the watches of the nig...
    Psalms 149:5
    Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for...
  22. Cross References
    Psalms 18:2
    The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
    2 Samuel 22:2
    He said, "The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer.
  23. Cross References
    Psalms 38:6
    I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
    Psalms 43:2
    For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
  24. Cross References
    Psalms 42:3
    My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?
  25. Cross References
    Psalms 42:5
    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
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