Psalms 42

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 [For the choirmaster Poem Of the sons of Korah] As a deer yearns for running streams, so I yearn foryou, my God.	1 A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and discern my cause from that of a nation not holy; rescue me from a man unjust and deceitful.
2 I thirst for God, the living God; when shal I go to see the face of God?	2 For you are God, my strength. Why have you rejected me? And why do I walk in sadness, while the adversary afflicts me?
3 I have no food but tears day and night, as al day long I am taunted, 'Where is your God?'	3 Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.
4 This I remember as I pour out my heart, how I used to pass under the roof of the Most High used to goto the house of God, among cries of joy and praise, the sound of the feast.	4 And I will enter, up to the altar of God, to God who enlivens my youthfulness. To you, O God, my God, I will confess upon a stringed instrument.
5 Why be so downcast, why all these sighs? Hope in God! I will praise him stil , my Saviour,	5 Why are you sad, my soul? And why do you disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance and my God.
6 my God. When I am downcast I think of you: from the land of Jordan and Hermon, I think of you,humble mountain.
7 Deep is cal ing to deep by the roar of your cataracts, al your waves and breakers have rolled over me.
8 In the daytime God sends his faithful love, and even at night; the song it inspires in me is a prayer tomy living God.
9 I shal say to God, my rock, 'Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go around in mourning,harrassed by the enemy?'
10 With death in my bones, my enemies taunt me, al day long they ask me, 'Where is your God?'
11 Why so downcast, why al these sighs? Hope in God! I wil praise him stil , my Saviour, my God.