Psalms 42:1- 43 5 NIV As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar. Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?” My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, “Where is your God?” Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked. You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Vindicate me, my God, and plead my cause against an unfaithful nation. Rescue me from those who are deceitful and wicked. You are God my stronghold. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy? Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God. Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Longing For God
Psalms 42 and 43 was originally one Psalm—as evidenced in several manuscripts, as well as in the repeated refrain "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God." in verses 5 and 11 Psalm 42 and verse 5 of Psalm. 43. He's surrounded by enemies who "hound him" as he says in verses 3 and 10 of Psalm 42.
All through Psalm 42, the writer is speaking to himself. He makes a shift in Psalm 43 and starts talking directly to God and asks Him for help.
Psalms 43:3 NIV Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
He ends both sections of the Psalm by encouraging himself, in spite of what's happening, to put his trust in God.
Psalms 42:11 NIV Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Psalms 43:5 NIV Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Psalms 42 and 43 was originally one Psalm—as evidenced in several manuscripts, as well as in the repeated refrain "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God." in verses 5 and 11 Psalm 42 and verse 5 of Psalm. 43. He's surrounded by enemies who "hound him" as he says in verses 3 and 10 of Psalm 42.
All through Psalm 42, the writer is speaking to himself. He makes a shift in Psalm 43 and starts talking directly to God and asks Him for help.
Psalms 43:3 NIV Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
He ends both sections of the Psalm by encouraging himself, in spite of what's happening, to put his trust in God.
Psalms 42:11 NIV Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Psalms 43:5 NIV Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
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