# Psalms 42 [[Psalms 41|←]] • [[Psalms 43|→]] --- To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. ### 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. ### 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? ### 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where thy God? ### 4 When I remember these I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. ### 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him the help of his countenance. ### 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. ### 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. ### 8 the Lord will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song with me, my prayer unto the God of my life. ### 9 I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? ### 10 with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where thy God? ### 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, the health of my countenance, and my God.