Psalms 42:2
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?
Berean Standard Bible
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 deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Cross References
Joshua 3:10He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.
Psalms 27:4One 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.
Psalms 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.
Psalms 63:3Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
Psalms 84:4How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah
Psalms 84:10For 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.
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 →