Psalm 42
8.7.8.7.D
Tune: As the deer panteth for the waters
| 0 | To the director. A contemplative song of the sons of Korach. |
| 1 | As a deer pants for the waters, |
| So my soul pants for you, God. | |
| 2 | My soul thirsts and longs within me, |
| Thirsts for God, the living God. | |
| When will I come before God’s face, | |
| When before God to appear? | |
| 3 | Where’s your God? all day they ask me; |
| Day and night my food is tears. | |
| 4 | Soul outpouring, I remember |
| When I passed through with the throng. | |
| To God’s house we all went feasting | |
| With loud praise and joyous song. | |
| 5 | Why so downcast, soul within me? |
| Why such deep perturbation? | |
| Hope in God, for yet I’ll praise him, | |
| For his face is salvation. | |
| 6 | Oh, my God, my soul within me |
| Is downcast, and so I will | |
| Now remember you from Jordan, | |
| From Hermon, and Mizar Hill. | |
| 7 | Deep to deep, callingprofoundly |
| At your sound of waterspouts; | |
| All your waves and churning billows | |
| Over me flowin and out. | |
| 8 | Day by day Yahweh pronounces |
| Faithfulness and love so kind. | |
| I pray to the God of my life; | |
| His song is with me by night. | |
| 9 | I will say to my God, my rock, |
| Why have you forgotten me? | |
| Why do you let me go mourning, | |
| Squeezed tight by the enemy? | |
| 10 | How they taunt me, my oppressors, |
| At the shatt’ring of my bones. | |
| All day long they keep on saying, | |
| Where’s your God? You’re all alone! | |
| 11 | Why so downcast, soul within me? |
| Why such anguished, deep distress? | |
| Hope in God, for yet I’ll praise him; | |
| My God, saviour of my face. |