Psalms 42 ~ 45

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42:1As the hart pants / After the streams of water, / So my soul pants / For You, O God. Compare
42:2My soul thirsts for God, / For the living God. / When will I come and appear / Before God? Compare
42:3My tears have been my food / Day and night, / While they say to me all day long, / Where is your God? Compare
42:4These things I remember, / And I pour out my soul within me: / That I passed through with the throng; / I led them to the house of God / With the voice of a joyous shout and praise, / The festal multitude. Compare
42:5Why are you cast down, O my soul? / And why are you disquieted within me? / Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him / For the salvation of His countenance. Compare
42:6O my God, my soul is cast down within me; / Therefore I remember You / From the land of the Jordan and the Hermons, / From Mount Mizar. Compare
42:7Deep calls unto deep / At the sound of Your water spouts; / All Your waves and Your billows / Pass over me. Compare
42:8By day Jehovah commands / His lovingkindness, / And by night His song is with me, / A prayer to the God of my life. Compare
42:9I say to God my rock, / Why have You forgotten me? / Why do I go mourning / Because of the oppression of the enemy? Compare
42:10As with a shattering in my bones, / My adversaries reproach me, / While they say to me all day long, / Where is your God? Compare
42:11Why are you cast down, O my soul? / And why are you disquieted within me? / Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, / The salvation of my countenance and my God. Compare
43:1Render judgment for me, O God; / And plead my cause / Before an unfaithful nation; / From the deceitful and unjust man / Deliver me. Compare
43:2For You are the God of my protection. / Why have You rejected me? / Why do I go about mourning / Because of the oppression of the enemy? Compare
43:3Send forth Your light and Your truth; / They will lead me; / They will bring me to Your holy mountain / And to Your tabernacles. Compare
43:4And I will go to the altar of God, / To God my exceeding joy; / And I will praise You with the harp, / O God, my God. Compare
43:5Why are you cast down, O my soul? / And why are you disquieted within me? / Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, / The salvation of my countenance and my God. Compare
To the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A Maschil Compare
44:1O God, we have heard with our ears; / Our fathers have recounted it to us, / The work You did in their days, / In the days of old. Compare
44:2You, by Your hand, / Have dispossessed nations, but You have planted our fathers; / You afflicted peoples, but You spread our fathers forth. Compare
44:3For they did not possess the land by their sword, / Nor did their arm save them; / Rather it was Your right hand and Your arm, / And the light of Your countenance; / For You delighted in them. Compare
44:4You are my King, O God; / Command salvation for Jacob. Compare
44:5Through You we thrust back our adversaries; / Through Your name we trample those who rise up against us. Compare
44:6For I will not trust in my bow, / Nor will my sword save me. Compare
44:7But You save us from our adversaries, / And You put to shame those who hate us. Compare
44:8In God we boast all day long, / And we praise Your name forever. Selah. Compare
44:9Nevertheless You have rejected us and humiliated us, / And You have not gone forth with our armies. Compare
44:10You have caused us to turn back from the adversary, / And those who hate us take spoil for themselves. Compare
44:11You have given us over like sheep to be eaten / And have scattered us among the nations. Compare
44:12You have sold Your people for nothing / And have not gone high on their price. Compare
44:13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, / A mocking and a derision to those around us. Compare
44:14You have made us a proverb among the nations, / Something to shake the head at among the peoples. Compare
44:15All day long my humiliation is before me, / And the shame of my face covers me, Compare
44:16Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, / Because of the presence of the enemy and of him who avenges himself. Compare
44:17All this has come upon us; but we have not forgotten You, / Nor have we been false to Your covenant. Compare
44:18Our heart has not turned back, / Nor have our steps deviated from Your way; Compare
44:19But You have crushed us in the place of jackals / And have covered us with the shadow of death. Compare
44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God / Or spread out our hands to a strange god, Compare
44:21Will God not search this out? / For He knows the hidden things of the heart. Compare
44:22But for Your sake we are slain all day long; / We are considered as sheep for slaughter. Compare
44:23Awake! Why are You sleeping, O Lord? / Arise! Do not reject us forever. Compare
44:24Why do You hide Your face / And forget our affliction and our oppression? Compare
44:25For our soul bows down to the dust; / Our body clings to the earth. Compare
44:26Rise up; be our help, / And redeem us for Your lovingkindness' sake. Compare
To the choir director: according to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. A Maschil; a Song of Love Compare
45:1My heart overflows with a good matter; / I speak what I have composed concerning the King. / My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Compare
45:2You are fairer than the sons of men; / Grace is poured upon Your lips; / Therefore God has blessed You forever. Compare
45:3Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O mighty One, / In Your majesty and Your splendor. Compare
45:4And in Your splendor ride on victoriously / Because of truth and meekness and righteousness; / And let Your right hand teach You awesome deeds. Compare
45:5Your arrows are sharp: / The peoples fall under You; / The arrows are in the heart of the King's enemies. Compare
45:6Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; / The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom. Compare
45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; / Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You / With the oil of gladness above Your companions. Compare
45:8All Your garments smell of myrrh and aloes, of cassia; / From palaces of ivory, harpstrings have made You glad. Compare
45:9The daughters of kings are among Your most prized; / The queen stands at Your right hand in the gold of Ophir. Compare
45:10Hear, O daughter, and see; and incline your ear; / And forget your people and your father's house; Compare
45:11Thus the King will desire your beauty. / Because He is your Lord, / Worship Him. Compare
45:12And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; / The rich among the people will entreat your favor. Compare
45:13The king's daughter is all glorious within the royal abode; / Her garment is a woven work inwrought with gold. Compare
45:14She will be led to the King in embroidered clothing; / The virgins behind her, her companions, / Will be brought to You. Compare
45:15They will be led with rejoicing and exultation; / They will enter the King's palace. Compare
45:16In the place of Your fathers will be Your sons; / You will make them princes in all the earth. Compare
45:17I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations; / Therefore the peoples will praise You forever and ever. Compare

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