Psalm 42

¹A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

²So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

⁶I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

⁷Answer me quickly, O Lord; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.

¹³¹I open my mouth and pant, longing for Your commandments.

⁸Yes, we wait for You, O Lord; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.

⁹My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

¹For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts!

²My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

¹A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, His holy mountain.

¹A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

¹⁰For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

³⁷On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

⁴One thing I have asked of the Lord; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and seek Him in His temple.

¹Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

²My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

¹⁰Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.

²Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

¹⁷Let the priests who minister before the Lord weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O Lord, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

¹⁰Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

⁵You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

²⁹You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

⁸Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah

¹⁵“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.

¹⁶Do not take your servant for a wicked woman, for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

¹A song of ascents. Of David. I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

¹⁵Look to the mountains—the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows. For the wicked will never again march through you; they will be utterly cut off.

¹⁴We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

⁷Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.

³⁶You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.

³⁷For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.

²From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

²³“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).

¹³Still I am certain to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

¹⁴Wait patiently for the Lord; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the Lord!

²⁴“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

²⁵The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

²From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

⁷As my life was fading away, I remembered the Lord. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.

⁸At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—

⁹which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—

⁴Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

²²So David and all the people with him got up and crossed the Jordan. By daybreak, there was no one left who had not crossed the Jordan.

⁴⁶About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

³For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

¹⁴Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.

¹⁵Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

⁷Your wrath weighs heavily upon me; all Your waves have submerged me. Selah

⁵³They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

⁵⁴The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

²⁶Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

²⁰Disaster after disaster is proclaimed, for the whole land is laid waste. My tents are destroyed in an instant, my curtains in a moment.

⁷I will bless the Lord who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.

⁵Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.

⁶When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.

¹⁰But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

⁸The Lord will decree a blessing on your barns and on everything to which you put your hand; the Lord your God will bless you in the land He is giving you.

²⁵About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

⁶I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

²The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

²For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

²He alone is my rock and my salvation. He is my fortress; I will never be shaken.

¹Of David. To You, O Lord, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.

²³Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.

²⁴Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

³My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

¹⁷Let the priests who minister before the Lord weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O Lord, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

³⁵so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your soul as well.”

¹⁸Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

¹⁰Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame—she who said to me, “Where is the Lord your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

⁵Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

⁶Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

¹⁷But I will restore your health and heal your wounds, declares the Lord, because they call you an outcast, Zion, for whom no one cares.”

⁵Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

¹²On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.