# Psalm 42 To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. 
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1. As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. 
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2. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 
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3. My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” 
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4. These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival. 
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5. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation
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6. and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar. 
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7. Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me. 
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8. By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 
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9. I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 
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10. As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” 
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11. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. 

(ESV)