Psalms

BOOK II

(Psalms 42–72)

Longing for God

42  As a deer longs for streams of water,so I long for You, God. 2† I thirst for God, the living God.When can I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night,while all day long people say to me,“Where is your God? ” 4 I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many,leading the festive procession to the house of God,with joyful and thankful shouts. 

5† Why am I so depressed?Why this turmoil within me?Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,my Savior and my God. 6† I  am deeply depressed;therefore I remember You from the land of Jordanand the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 7 Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me. 8 The Lord will send His faithful love by day; His song will be with me in the night —a prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God, my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?Why must I go about in sorrowbecause of the enemy’s oppression? ” 10 My adversaries taunt me,as if crushing my bones,while all day long they say to me,“Where is your God? ” 11 Why am I so depressed?Why this turmoil within me?Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,my Savior and my God.