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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?
I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, "When will I be able to go and appear in God's presence?"
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]
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 choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah.
As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God. When can I go and stand before him? 3 Day and night I have only tears for food, while my enemies continually taunt me, saying, "Where is this God of yours?" 4 My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be: I walked among the crowds of worshipers, leading a great procession to the house of God, singing for joy and giving thanks amid the sound of a great celebration! 5 Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again— my Savior andBible 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 the grain they had brought from Egypt was almost gone, Jacob said to his sons, "Go back and buy us a little more food."
If you send Benjamin with us, we will go down and buy more food.
Judah said to his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will be on our way. Otherwise we will all die of starvation—and not only we, but you and our little ones.
"Now hurry back to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me master over all the land of Egypt. So come down to me immediately!
I will not die; instead, I will live to tell what the Lord has done.
About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to visit him. He gave the king this message: "This is what the Lord says: ‘Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die. You will not recover from this illness.'"
But Jesus told him, "No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do 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.
