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          DASV: Psalm 42    

For the music director, a Maskil of the Sons of Korah

1 As a deer pants after the water brooks,
     so my soul pants after 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 ask me, "Where is your God?"
4 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul,
     how I used to walk with the crowd,
           leading them to the house of God,
     with shouts of joy and thanksgiving,
           with the roaring crowd celebrating the festival.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
     Why are you so disturbed?
           Hope in God,
     for I will yet praise him,
           my salvation and my God.

6 My soul is depressed within me,
     therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan,
           and from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep water calls to deep at the rumble of your waterfalls;
     all your waves and billows wash over me.
8 Yet the LORD commands his loyal love by day;
     at night his song is with me,
           a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will say to God my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?
     Why must I walk around mourning
           because of the oppression of the enemy?"
10 As a mortal wound, my adversaries taunt me,
     while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
     Why are you so disturbed within me?
           Hope in God,
     for I will yet praise him,
           my salvation and my God.

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