Psalm 42:1-4
Book Two
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.
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t As a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.
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u My soul thirsts for God,
for v the living God.
When shall I come and w appear before God?
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x My tears have been my food
day and night,
y while they say to me all the day long,
"Where is your God?"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Cross References
Psalms 55:14
We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.
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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.
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