Psalm 42In many Hebrew manuscripts Psalms 42 and 43 constitute one psalm.,In Hebrew texts 42:1-11 is numbered 42:2-12. 42

₁As the deer pants for streams of water,

so my soul pants for you, my God.

₂My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When can I go and meet with God?

₃My tears have been my food

day and night,

while people say to me all day long,

‘Where is your God?’

₄These things I remember

as I pour out my soul:

how I used to go to the house of God

under the protection of the Mighty One

with shouts of joy and praise

among the festive throng.

₅Why, my soul, are you downcast?

Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

for I will yet praise him,

my Saviour and my God.

₆My soul is downcast within me;

therefore I will remember you

from the land of the Jordan,

the heights of Hermon – from Mount Mizar.

₇Deep calls to deep

in the roar of your waterfalls;

all your waves and breakers

have swept over me.

₈By day the Lord directs his love,

at night his song is with me –

a prayer to the God of my life.

₉I say to God my Rock,

‘Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I go about mourning,

oppressed by the enemy?’

₁₀My bones suffer mortal agony

as my foes taunt me,

saying to me all day long,

‘Where is your God?’

₁₁Why, my soul, are you downcast?

Why so disturbed within me?

Put your hope in God,

for I will yet praise him,

my Saviour and my God.