42:1 For the leader. A maskil of the descendants of Korach:
42:2 Just as a deer longs for running streams, God, I long for you.
42:3 I am thirsty for God, for the living God! When can I come and appear before God?
42:4 My tears are my food, day and night, while all day people ask me, “Where is your God?”
42:5 I recall, as my feelings well up within me, how I’d go with the crowd to the house of God, with sounds of joy and praise from the throngs observing the festival.
42:6 My soul, why are you so downcast? Why are you groaning inside me? Hope in God, since I will praise him again for the salvation that comes from his presence.
42:7 My God, when I feel so downcast, I remind myself of you from the land of Yarden, from the peaks of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
42:8 Deep is calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls; all your surging rapids and waves are sweeping over me.
42:9 By day Adonai commands his grace, and at night his song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
42:10 I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, under pressure by the enemy?
42:11 My adversaries’ taunts make me feel as if my bones were crushed, as they ask me all day long, ‘Where is your God?’ ”
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