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Psalms 42

11 aligned verses; 11 with wording or punctuation differences .

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For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You , O God.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks , So panteth my soul after thee , O God.
My soul thirsts for God, the living God . When shall I come and appear in God’s presence ?
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God : When shall I come and appear before God ?
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long , Where is your God?
My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
These things come to mind as I pour out my soul : how I walked with the multitude , leading the procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng , and led them to the house of God , With the voice of joy and praise , a multitude keeping holyday .
Why are you downcast , O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God , for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence .
Why art thou cast down , O my soul? And ` why ' art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God ; for I shall yet praise him ` For ' the help of his countenance .
O my God, my soul despairs within me . Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me : Therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan , And the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls ; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterfalls : All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day , and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
`Yet' Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day -time; And in the night his song shall be with me , `Even' a prayer unto the God of my life.
I say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy ?
Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long , Where is your God?
As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
Why are you downcast , O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God , for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Why art thou cast down , O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God ; for I shall yet praise him, `Who is' the help of my countenance, and my God.

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