Psalms 42 YLT
Summary: Opening Book II of the Psalter, attributed to the sons of Korah, Psalm 42 gives voice to exile and spiritual thirst through one of Scripture's most famous images: "as a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God" (v. 1). The psalmist recalls leading festival processions "with shouts of joy and praise" now barred to him, weeping day and night far from the temple, perhaps in the region of Mount Hermon. Its refrain, repeated here and in Psalm 43, interrogates the psalmist's own despair: "Why are you cast down, O my soul?... hope in God" (v. 5, 11).
1To the Overseer. --An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.
2My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?
3My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where is thy God?'
4These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!
5What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him: The salvation of my countenance--My God!
6In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
7Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.
8By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song is with me, A prayer to the God of my life.
9I say to God my rock, `Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?
10With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where is thy God?'
11What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!
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