Psalm 42
As a deer longs for the running brooks
: so longs my soul for you, O God.
My soul is thirsty for God, thirsty for the living God
: when shall I come and see his face?
My tears have been my food day and night
: while they ask me all day long ‘Where now is your God?’
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,
To the shouts and songs of thanksgiving
: a multitude keeping high festival.
Why are you so full of heaviness, my soul
: and why so unquiet within me?
O put your trust in God
: for I will praise him yet, who is my deliverer and my God.
My soul is heavy within me
: therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan,
from Mizar among the hills of Hermon.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waters
: all your waves and breakers have gone over me.
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.
I will say to God, my rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me
: why must I go like a mourner because the enemy oppresses me?’
Like a sword through my bones, my enemies have mocked me
: while they ask me all day long ‘Where now is your God?’
Why are you so full of heaviness, my soul
: and why so unquiet within me?
O put your trust in God
: for I will praise him yet, who is my deliverer and my God.
Psalm 43
Give judgement for me, O God,
take up my cause against an ungodly people
: deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
For you are God my refuge
why have you turned me away? :
why must I go like a mourner because the enemy oppresses me?
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.
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.
Why are you so full of heaviness, my soul :
and why so unquiet within me?
O put your trust in God :
for I will praise him yet, who is my deliverer and my God.