42:1 AS THE hart pants {and} longs for the water brooks, so I pant {and} long for You, O God. |
42:2 My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? |
42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God? |
42:4 These things I [earnestly] remember and pour myself out within me: how I went slowly before the throng and led them in procession to the house of God [like a bandmaster before his band, timing the steps to the sound of music and the chant of song], with the voice of shouting and praise, a throng keeping festival. |
42:5 Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me {and} be disquieted within me? Hope in God {and} wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God. |
42:6 O my God, my life is cast down upon me [and I find the burden more than I can bear]; therefore will I [earnestly] remember You from the land of the Jordan [River] and the [summits of Mount] Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar. |
42:7 [Roaring] deep calls to [roaring] deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me. |
42:8 Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. |
42:9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? |
42:10 As with a sword [crushing] in my bones, my enemies taunt {and} reproach me, while they say continually to me, Where is your God? |
42:11 Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me {and} be disquieted within me? Hope in God {and} wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God. |