Psalm 42-43 “Where do you look when your soul is downcast?”

1  ^tAs a deer pants for flowing streams,
so pants my soul for you, O God.

2  ^uMy soul thirsts for God,
for ^vthe living God.
When shall I come and ^wappear before God?²

3  ^xMy tears have been my food
day and night,
^ywhile they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”

4  These things I remember,
as I ^zpour out my soul:
^ahow I would go ^bwith the throng
and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
^ca multitude keeping festival.

5  ^dWhy are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you ^ein turmoil within me?
^fHope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation³

6 and my God.
My soul is cast down within me;
therefore I ^gremember you
^hfrom the land of Jordan and of ⁱHermon,
from Mount Mizar.

7  Deep calls to deep
at the roar of your waterfalls;
^jall your breakers and your ^kwaves
have gone over me.

8  By day the Lord ^lcommands his steadfast love,
and at ^mnight his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.

9  I say to God, ⁿmy rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
^oWhy do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10  As with a deadly wound in my bones,
my adversaries taunt me,
^pwhile they say to me all the day long,
“Where is your God?”

11  ^qWhy 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  ^rVindicate me, O God, and ^sdefend my cause
against an ungodly people,
from ^tthe deceitful and unjust man
deliver me!

2  For you are ^uthe God in whom I take refuge;
why have you ^vrejected me?
Why do I ^wgo about mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?

3  ^xSend out your light and your truth;
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your ^yholy hill
and to your ^zdwelling!

4  Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the lyre,
O God, my God.

5  ^aWhy are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil within me?
^bHope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my salvation and my God.