Psalms 42:2

For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me? 1

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

In Context

1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause, against an ungodly nation: deliver me from the unjust and crafty man. 1

3Send forth your light and your truth: they have led me, and brought me to your holy mountain, and to your tabernacles. 1

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Cross References

Joshua 3:10Hereby you⌃ shall know that the living God is among you, and will utterly destroy from before our face the Chananite, and the Chettite and Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Amorite, and the Gergesite, and the Jebusite.

Psalms 27:4Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their devices: give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense to them. 1

Psalms 43:4You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob. 1

Psalms 63:3who have sharpened their tongues as a sword; they have bent their bow maliciously; 1

Psalms 84:4Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn your anger away from us. 1

Psalms 84:10Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 1

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 →

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