#  Hope In God

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#  Scripture

Psalm 42

English Standard Version

### Book Two

### Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?

#### To the choirmaster. A Maskil\[[a](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2042&version=ESV#fen-ESV-14557a "See footnote a")\] of the Sons of Korah.

42 As a deer pants for flowing streams,
 so pants my soul for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God,
 for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?\[[b](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2042&version=ESV#fen-ESV-14558b "See footnote b")\]

3 My tears have been my food
 day and night,
while they say to me all the day long,
 “Where is your God?”
4 These things I remember,
 as I pour out my soul:
how I would go with the throng
 and lead them in procession to the house of God
with glad shouts and songs of praise,
 a multitude keeping festival.

5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
 and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
 my salvation\[[c](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2042&version=ESV#fen-ESV-14561c "See footnote c")\] 6 and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
 therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
 from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep
 at the roar of your waterfalls;
all your breakers and your waves
 have gone over me.
8 By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
 and at night his song is with me,
 a prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God, my rock:
 “Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
 because of the oppression of the enemy?”
10 As with a deadly wound in my bones,
 my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me all the day long,
 “Where is your God?”

11 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
 and why are you in turmoil within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
 my salvation and my God.