Psalm 42

C.M.

1As the deer pants for water clear, so my soul thirsts for You;
2My soul thirsts for the living God; when can I meet with You?

3My tears have been my food all day, and also through the night;
While men mock me and say all day, “Where is your God of might?”

4These things I do remember well, as I pour out my soul:
How I went with the multitude into the house of God.

I led the great procession with a shout of joy and song,
With thanks and praise I went among the festive, joyful throng.

5Why are you so downcast, my soul? Why so disturbed in me?
Put hope in God—I’ll praise Him yet; my Savior God is He!

6My soul is downcast within me, so I remember You,
From land along the Jordan, heights of Hermon, Mizar, too.

7Deep calls to deep within the roar of Your great waterfalls;
Your waves and breakers swept o’er me; they flooded without pause.

8By day the Lord directs His love, His steadfast love to me;
At night His song is with me still—my prayer to God will be.

9I say to God my Rock, “O why have You forgotten me?
Why must I mourn all day oppressed by the vile enemy?”

10My bones do suffer mortal pain; my foes taunt me all day.
“Where is your God?” they mock with scorn, “Where is your God?” they say.

11Why are you so downcast, my soul? Why so disturbed in me?
Put hope in God—I’ll praise Him yet; my Savior God is He!