42Psalms 42

PSAL. XLII. / 1 Dauids zeale to serue God in the Temple. 5 He incourageth his soule to trust in God. / To the chiefe Musician, Maschil, for the sonnes of Korah.

1As the Hart panteth after the water brookes, so panteth my soule after thee, O God.Select Psalms 42:1

2My soule thirsteth for God, for the liuing God: when shall I come and appeare before God?Select Psalms 42:2

3My teares haue bene my meate day and night; while they continually say vnto me, Where is thy God?Select Psalms 42:3

4When I remember these things, I powre out my soule in mee; for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God; with the voyce of ioy and praise, with a multitude that kept holy day.Select Psalms 42:4

5Why art thou cast downe, O my soule, and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him for the helpe of his countenance.Select Psalms 42:5

6O my God, my soule is cast downe within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Iordane, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Missar.Select Psalms 42:6

7Deepe calleth vnto deepe at the noyse of thy water-spouts: all thy waues, and thy billowes are gone ouer me.Select Psalms 42:7

8Yet the Lord will command his louing kindnes in the day time, and in the night his song shalbe with me, and my prayer vnto the God of my life.Select Psalms 42:8

9I will say vnto God, My rocke, why hast thou forgotten me? why goe I mourning, because of the oppression of the enemy?Select Psalms 42:9

10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproch mee: while they say dayly vnto me, Where is thy God?Select Psalms 42:10

11Why art thou cast downe, O my soule? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.Select Psalms 42:11