# Psalm 42 (New King James Version)
Psalms 42–72Yearning for God in the Midst of Distresses

##### Chapter 42
###### 1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,  
So pants my soul for You, O God.  

###### 2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.  
When shall I come and appear before God?  

###### 3 My tears have been my food day and night,  
While they continually say to me,  
"Where _is_ your God?"

###### 4 When I remember these _things,_  
I pour out my soul within me.  
For I used to go with the multitude;  
I went with them to the house of God,  
With the voice of joy and praise,  
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

###### 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul?  
And _why_ are you disquieted within me?  
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him  
_For_ the help of His countenance.

###### 6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me;  
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,  
And from the heights of Hermon,  
From the Hill Mizar.  

###### 7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;  
All Your waves and billows have gone over me.  

###### 8 The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,  
And in the night His song _shall be_ with me--  
A prayer to the God of my life.

###### 9 I will say to God my Rock,  
"Why have You forgotten me?  
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"  

###### 10 _As_ with a breaking of my bones,  
My enemies reproach me,  
While they say to me all day long,  
"Where _is_ your God?"

###### 11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?  
And why are you disquieted within me?  
Hope in God;  
For I shall yet praise Him,  
The help of my countenance and my God.