{Psa 42-46 ^**}

    ^42:1 As the male-deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, O God. ^42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? ^42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

    ^42:4 These things I remember and pour out my soul within me, because I went with the crowd and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holy day.

    ^42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you in an uproar within me? Hope in God, because I will yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

    ^42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

    ^42:7 Deep calls to deep at the voice of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have gone over me. ^42:8 Yet Jehovah will command his loving kindness in the daytime and in the night his song will be with me, even a prayer to the God of my life.

    ^42:9 I will say to God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? ^42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

    ^42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you in an uproar within me? Hope in God, because I will yet praise him, the help of my countenance and my God.