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Psalms 42

11 aligned verses; 11 with wording or punctuation differences .

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Verse BSB Berean Standard Bible YLT Young's Literal Translation
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.
To the Overseer . -- An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee , O God.
My soul thirsts for God, the living God . When shall I come and appear in God’s presence ?
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God , When do I enter and see the face of God ?
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long , Where is your God?
My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, ` 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 I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth , I go softly with them unto the house of God , With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!
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.
What! bowest thou thyself , O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him : The salvation of my countenance -- My God!
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.
In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan , And of 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 unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed 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.
By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness , And by night a song ` is ' with me , A prayer to 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 say to God my rock, ` Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy ?
Like the crushing of my bones , my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long , Where is your God?
With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, ` 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 .
What! bowest thou thyself , O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God !

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