{"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/ylt/psalms/42","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-15T09:56:21.379Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":42,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":41,"nextChapter":43,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":11},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"To the Overseer. — An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him: The salvation of my countenance — My God!"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song is with me, A prayer to the God of my life."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 42 (YLT)","markdown":"[Psalms 42](https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/42)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/42 (accessed 2026-06-15)."}}