Highlights
- The Psalmist compares deer pants for the water to his soul pants for God vs 1 – 2; only God can satisfy the thirst of our soul;
- Put one’s hope in God vs 11 – my Saviour and my God. God had proven over and over again in the Bible, to turn the mournings into joys especially for the righteous; some instantly, other cases take sometimes.
Psalms 42:1-6,8-11
[1]As a deer longs for a stream of cool water, so I long for you, O God.
[2]I thirst for you, the living God; when can I go and worship in your presence?
[3]Day and night I cry, and tears are my only food; all the time my enemies ask me, “Where is your God?”
[4]My heart breaks when I remember the past, when I went with the crowds to the house of God and led them as they walked along, a happy crowd, singing and shouting praise to God.
[5]Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in God, and once again I will praise him, my saviour and my God.
6 Here in exile my heart is breaking, and so I turn my thoughts to him. He has sent waves of sorrow over my soul; chaos roars at me like a flood, like waterfalls thundering down to the Jordan from Mount Hermon and Mount Mizar.
[8]May the Lord show his constant love during the day, so that I may have a song at night, a prayer to the God of my life.
[9]To God, my defender, I say, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go on suffering from the cruelty of my enemies?”
[10]I am crushed by their insults, as they keep on asking me, “Where is your God?”
[11]Why am I so sad? Why am I so troubled? I will put my hope in God, and once again I will praise him, my saviour and my God.