Nov. 10, 2024

Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

Psa 42:1  For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. 

Psa 42:2  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? 

Psa 42:3  My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" 

Psa 42:4  These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng. 

Psa 42:5  Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. 

Psa 42:6  My soul is downcast within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar. 

Psa 42:7  Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. 

Psa 42:8  By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life. 

Psa 42:9  I say to God my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?" 

Psa 42:10  My bones suffer mortal agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?" 

Psa 42:11  Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.