Psalm 42:3-4

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

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.

1. 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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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."
   
4. 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.
   
5. Cross References
   Psalms 55:14
   We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.
   
6. 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.