{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/psalms/42","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:39:12.175Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":42,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":41,"nextChapter":43,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":11},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, |Where is your God?|"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Yahweh 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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I will ask God, my rock, |Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?|"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, |Where is your God?|"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 42 (WEB)","markdown":"[Psalms 42](https://primebible.com/web/psalms/42)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/psalms/42 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}