Book of Psalms, No. 42
Psalms 42 NWT - New World TranslationNo. 42 of the Psalms—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ As the hind that longs for the water streams,
So my very soul longs for you, O God.[a]1 - ¶ My soul indeed thirsts for God,2 for the living God.[b]3
When shall I come and appear [before][c] God?4 - ¶ To me my tears have become food day and night,5
While [they][d] say to me all day long: “Where is your God?”6 - ¶ These things I will remember, and I will pour out my soul within me.7
For I used to pass along with the throng,
I used to walk slowly before them to the house of God,[e]8
¶ With the voice of a joyful cry and thanksgiving,9
Of a crowd celebrating a festival.10 - ¶ Why are you in despair, O my soul,11
And why are you boisterous within me?12
¶ Wait for God,13
For I shall yet laud him as the grand salvation[f] of my person.[g]14 - ¶ O my God,[h] within me my very soul is in despair.15
That is why I remember you,16
¶ From the land of Jordan and the peaks of Herʹmon,[i]17
From the little mountain.[j]18 - ¶ Watery deep to watery deep[k] is calling
At the sound of your (water-) spouts.[l]
¶ All your breakers and your waves19—
Over me they have passed.20 - ¶ By day Jehovah will command his loving-kindness,[m]21
And by night his song will be with me;22
There will be prayer to the God of my life.[n]23 - ¶ I will say to God my crag:24
“Why have you forgotten me?25
Why do I walk sad because of the oppression of the enemy?”26 - ¶ With murder against my bones those showing hostility to me have reproached me,27
While they say to me all day long: “Where is your God?”28 - ¶ Why are you in despair, O my soul,29
And why are you boisterous within me?30
¶ Wait for God,31
For I shall yet laud him as the grand salvation of my person[o] and as my God.[p]32
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “O God,” MLXXVg; TSy, “O Jehovah.”
- ^ “For the living God.” Heb., leʼElʹ chai.
- ^ “And appear [before].” Heb., weʼe·ra·ʼehʹ penehʹ. Here, penehʹ is not translated “before,” but it combines with ʼe·ra·ʼehʹ for the rendering “appear.” LXXVg, “appear before”; TSy, “see [the face of].”
- ^ “They,” Sy and four Heb. mss.
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼElo·himʹ.
- ^ Lit., “the salvations.” Heb., yeshu·ʽohthʹ, pl. to denote majesty.
- ^ “My face,” LXXSyVg and vs 11; MT, “his face.” See 2Sa 17:11 ftn, “Person.”
- ^ “O my God.” Heb., ʼElo·haiʹ.
- ^ Or, “and the sacred places (peaks).”
- ^ Lit., “from the mountain of littleness.” Heb., me·harʹ mits·ʽarʹ; by a correction, “Zion.”
- ^ Or, “Surging waters to surging waters,” M; LXXVg, “Abyss to abyss.”
- ^ “Your cataracts,” LXXVg.
- ^ Or, “loyal love.”
- ^ “To the God of my life,” M(Heb., leʼElʹ chai·yaiʹ)TLXXVg; Sy and many Heb. mss, “to the living God.” See vs 2.
- ^ Lit., “my face.” See vs 5 ftn, “Person.”
- ^ “And as my God.” Heb., wEʼ·lo·haiʹ.
REFERENCES
- ^ Is 26:8
- ^ Ps 63:1
- ^ De 32:40; Jos 3:10; Je 10:10; Mt 16:16; 1Th 1:9
- ^ Ps 27:4; 84:2
- ^ Ps 80:5; 102:9
- ^ Ps 3:2; 79:10
- ^ Jb 30:16; Ps 62:8
- ^ 1Ch 16:1
- ^ De 16:14; Eph 5:19; Col 3:16
- ^ De 16:16; 2Ch 30:23
- ^ Ps 55:4; Mr 14:34
- ^ Ps 43:5
- ^ Ps 37:7; 71:14; La 3:24; Mc 7:7
- ^ Ps 43:5
- ^ Ps 22:1; 43:5; Pr 12:25; Jn 12:27
- ^ Jon 2:7
- ^ De 3:8
- ^ Ps 48:2; 68:16; 132:13
- ^ Ps 88:7
- ^ Jon 2:3
- ^ De 28:8
- ^ Jb 35:10; Ps 32:7; 63:6
- ^ Ps 27:1
- ^ 2Sa 22:2
- ^ Ps 13:1
- ^ Ps 38:6; 43:2; Ec 4:1
- ^ Ps 31:11; 102:8
- ^ Ps 3:2; 79:10; Jl 2:17; Mc 7:10
- ^ Ps 42:5
- ^ Ps 43:5
- ^ Ps 37:7; 71:14
- ^ Ps 42:5
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