Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God!
For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Psalms 42:5 in context
Psalms 42:2–8
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 ask me, “Where is your God?”
4
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house,
with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
5
Selected verse
Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God!
For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
6
My God, my soul is in despair within me.
Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
7
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
8
The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime.
In the night his song shall be with me:
a prayer to the God of my life.
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