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Psalms 42:2
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I thirst for God, the living God.When can I come and appear before God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
I thirst for the living God. When can I go to meet with him?
My soul (my life, my inner self) thirsts for God, for the living God. When will I come and see the face of God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
My soule thirsteth for God, euen for the liuing God: when shall I come and appeare before the presence of God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;When shall I come and appear before God?
My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God's presence?
In my heart, I am thirsty for you, the living God. When will I see your face?
Just as a deer longs for running streams, God, I long for you.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My soul thirsts for the living God. When can I go to meet with him?
My soul thirsts after thee, O living God; when shall I come to see thy face?
I thirst for you, the living God. When can I go and worship in your presence?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and see the face of God?
My teares are my meate daye and night, whyle it is daylie sayde vnto me: where is now thy God?
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God.
My soule thirsteth for God, for the liuing God: when shall I come and appeare before God?
My soule is a thirst for the Lorde, yea euen for the lyuyng Lorde: when shall I come to appeare before the face of the Lorde?
My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Mi soule thirstide to God, `that is a `quik welle; whanne schal Y come, and appere bifor the face of God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: When shall I come and see the face of God?
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.When shall I come and appear before God? [fn]
I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him?
My soul is thirsty for God, for the living God. When will I come and meet with God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
My soul thirsteth for God, for a GOD who liveth, - When shall I enter in, and see the face of God?
(41-3) My soul hath thirsted after the strong living God; when shall I come and appear before the face of God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; When shall I come and appear before God?
Contextual Overview
For the music director; a well-written song by the Korahites.
As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God! 2 I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, "When will I be able to go and appear in God's presence?" 3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?" 4 I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival. 5 Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
thirsteth: Psalms 36:8, Psalms 36:9, Psalms 63:1, John 7:37, Revelation 22:1
living: Job 23:3, Jeremiah 2:13, Jeremiah 10:10, John 5:26, 1 Thessalonians 1:9
when: Psalms 27:4, Psalms 84:4, Psalms 84:10
Reciprocal: Genesis 13:4 - Unto Deuteronomy 5:26 - living 1 Samuel 26:19 - they have driven 2 Samuel 15:25 - he will bring 2 Samuel 23:15 - longed 2 Kings 2:14 - Where is 1 Chronicles 11:17 - of the water Psalms 73:25 - none upon Psalms 84:2 - soul Psalms 119:81 - fainteth Psalms 143:6 - my soul Proverbs 25:25 - cold Song of Solomon 2:5 - Stay Song of Solomon 8:6 - love Isaiah 38:22 - What Isaiah 41:17 - seek Isaiah 55:1 - every Zephaniah 3:18 - sorrowful Matthew 5:6 - are Matthew 16:16 - the living Luke 6:21 - ye that hunger 2 Corinthians 3:3 - the living 1 Timothy 3:15 - the living Hebrews 12:22 - of the Revelation 7:16 - hunger
Cross-References
When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Return, buy us a little more food."
If you send our brother with us, we'll go down and buy food for you.
Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die—we and you and our little ones.
Now go up to my father quickly and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay!
I will not die, but live, and I will proclaim what the Lord has done.
In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, "This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.'"
But he answered, "It is written, ‘ Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God .'"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God,.... Who is so called, in opposition to the idols of the Gentiles, which were lifeless statues; and who is the author, giver, and maintainer of natural life; and who has promised and provided eternal life in his Son; and is himself the fountain of life, and the fountain of living waters, and a place of broad rivers and streams: particularly his lovingkindness, which is better than life, is a pure river of water of life, the streams where make glad the saints; and hence it is that the psalmist thirsted after God, and the discoveries of his love: saying,
when shall I come and appear before God? meaning, not in heaven, as desiring the beatific vision; but in the tabernacle, where were the worship of God, and the ark, the symbol of the divine Presence, and where the Israelites appeared before him, even in Zion; see Psalms 84:7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My soul thirsteth for God - That is, as the hind thirsts for the running stream.
For the living God - God, not merely as God, without anything more definitely specified, but God considered as living, as himself possessing life, and as having the power of imparting that life to the soul.
When shall I come and appear before God? - That is, as I have been accustomed to do in the sanctuary. When shall I be restored to the privilege of again uniting with his people in public prayer and praise? The psalmist evidently expected that this would be; but to one who loves public worship the time seems long when he is prevented from enjoying that privilege.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 42:2. When shall I come — When, when shall I have the privilege of appearing in his courts before God? In the mouth of a Christian these words would import: "When shall I see my heavenly country? When shall I come to God, the Judge of all, and to Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant?" He who is a stranger and a pilgrim here below, and feels a heart full of piety to God, may use these words in this sense; but he who feels himself here at home, whose soul is not spiritual, wishes the earth to be eternal, and himself eternal on it-feels no panting after the living God.
