Psalms 42; 43
42.1 As a deer longs for the running brooks:
so longs my soul for you, O God.
2 My soul is thirsty for God, thirsty for the living God:
when shall I come and see his face?
3 My tears have been my food day and night:
while they ask me all day long ‘Where now is your God?’
4 As I pour out my soul by myself, I remember this:
how I went to the house of the Mighty One, into the temple of God,
5 To the shouts and songs of thanksgiving:
a multitude keeping high festival.
6 Why are you so full of heaviness, my soul:
and why so unquiet within me?
7 O put your trust in God:
for I will praise him yet, who is my deliverer and my God.
8 My soul is heavy within me:
therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan,
from Mizar among the hills of Hermon.
9 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waters:
all your waves and breakers have gone over me.
10 Surely the Lord will grant his loving mercy in the day-time:
and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
11 I will say to God, my rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me:
why must I go like a mourner because the enemy oppresses me?’
12 Like a sword through my bones, my enemies have mocked me:
while they ask me all day long ‘Where now is your God?’
13 Why are you so full of heaviness, my soul:
and why so unquiet within me?
14 O put your trust in God:
for I will praise him yet, who is my deliverer and my God.
43.1 Give judgement for me, O God, take up my cause against an ungodly people:
deliver me from the deceitful and unjust.
2 For you are God my refuge—why have you turned me away:
why must I go like a mourner because the enemy oppresses me?
3 O send out your light and your truth, and let them lead me:
let them guide me to your holy hill and to your dwelling.
4 Then I shall go to the altar of God, to God my joy and my delight:
and to the harp I shall sing your praises, O God, my God.
5 Why are you so full of heaviness, my soul:
and why so unquiet within me?
6 O put your trust in God:
for I will praise him yet, who is my deliverer and my God.
