Psalms 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
In Context
1As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after thee, O God.
3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?
Cross References
Joshua 3:10And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite,
Psalms 27:4One thing I have asked of LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise thee upon the harp, O God, my God.
Psalms 63:3Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Psalms 84:4Blessed are those who dwell in thy house. They will still be praising thee. Selah.
Psalms 84:10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 42:2-6
Desiring Communion with God; Mourning for the Loss of Public Ordinances. 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a… Read the whole commentary →