Psalms, Chapter 42

1. "To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah." As the deer pants for the brooks of water, so my soul pants 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 continually say to me, Where is your God?    4. When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept the festival.    5. Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.    6. O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.    7. Deep calls to deep at the noise of your pouring waters: all your waves and your billows have gone over me.    8. Yet the LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.    9. I will say unto God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?    10. As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily to me, Where is your God?    11. Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.