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Psalms 42:2

For you are God, my strength. Why have you rejected me? And why do I walk in sadness, while the adversary afflicts me?

Catholic Public Domain 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

1A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and discern my cause from that of a nation not holy; rescue me from a man unjust and deceitful.

3Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.

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Cross References

Joshua 3:10And again, he said: “By this shall you know that the Lord, the living God, is in your midst, and that he shall scatter in your sight, the Canaanite and the Hittite, the Hivite and the Perizzite, likewise the Girgashite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite.

Psalms 27:4Give to them according to their works and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Assign to them according to the works of their hands. Repay them with their own retribution.

Psalms 43:4For they did not take possession of the land by their sword, and their own arm did not save them. But your right hand and your arm, and the light of your countenance did so, because you were pleased with them.

Psalms 63:3You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant, from a multitude of workers of iniquity.

Psalms 84:4You have mitigated all your wrath. You have turned aside from the wrath of your indignation.

Psalms 84:10So then, truly his salvation is near to those who fear him, so that glory may inhabit our land.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

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Study Psalms 42:2

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